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Westy is dead.

The disaster of Vietnam has many fathers, including civilians such as John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Robert McNamara. Whatever hope of victory might have existed, however, was squandered through the pointless, ineffective, and enormously destructive tactics pursued by Westmoreland. The Army under Westmoreland broke every rule of counter-insurgency combat, and not in a good way. Rather than engaging in the careful self-examination that might eventually lead to organizational learning, Westy blamed civilians for his failures, insisting that the war could have been won if only “the politicians” had allowed him to invade Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam. That the US Army could not even defeat the indigenous South Vietnamese insurgency, much less its North Vietnamese allies, apparently never entered his calculations.

On the upside, he was always skeptical of the bombing campaigns against northern cities, and never believed that strategic attacks against civilians could bring North Vietnam to the table.

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