The Top Sixteen Westmoreland Quotations

16. Motives: In an oral history interview: “I diligently tried to do a good job, not because I was bucking for anything higher, but because I was trying to do a job for the sake of doing a good job. That was my orientation. As a matter of fact, it was throughout my career. It was to do a job for …

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Written by Lewis Sorley on Monday October 10, 2011

Exclusive Quotes from `Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam'

Perhaps the most outstandingly original history of the Vietnam War is Lewis Sorley's A Better War . A Better War describes the US fight in Southeast Asia between 1969 and 1972. The US forces switched then from a big-unit strategy adapted from the Korean experience toward counterinsurgency …

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Written by David Frum on Monday October 10, 2011