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Article: Westmoreland's mission impossible.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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- Vietnam
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- December 1, 2009
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I had to read "Why Westmoreland Was Right" (April 2009) about three times to try and figure out what the author was trying to convey--what General William Westmoreland had "right" in planning and fighting the Vietnam War. Actually I'm still not sure what the author thinks Westmoreland was right about.
In my opinion, General Westmoreland was handed a mission impossible. He was expected to hold off the enemy until the South Vietnamese forces could be trained and equipped to fight the war themselves.
His strategy was to establish a system of fortified bases all across South Vietnam to allow the infantry to conduct patrols to find, fix and ...