Reading Lewis Sorley’s scalding biography of Army Gen. William Westmoreland, “Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam,” is like watching a slow-motion replay of an oncoming train wreck ...

The Westmoreland case, which has been disputed in countless TV and radio broadcasts, newspaper and magazine articles, even a book that took the general`s side, got a full airing outside of court ...

When Retired Army Gen. William Westmoreland died this week in Charleston, S.C., the press erupted with reminiscences, mostly about him and the Vietnam War, mostly permeated with the myths of the ...

The late Gen. William Westmoreland, viewed by many as the architect of defeat in Vietnam, had a broad view of the war that went beyond his military role, according to Col. Gregory Daddis.

Time magazine was so taken with him that it named him its Man of the Year for 1965. When Westmoreland first took command in Saigon, the United States had fewer than 17,000 military “advisors ...

In 1965 Time magazine named William Westmoreland, ... Westmoreland retired, and returned home to South Carolina, where he was defeated in a bid for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1974.

Getty ImagesPresident Lyndon B. Johnson, left, and Gen. William Westmoreland leaving a helicopter. Documents recently declassified by The New York Times reveal that a top U.S. general planned for ...

Kwame Holman remembers Gen. William Westmoreland, the military chief who commanded U.S. troops during the early phases of the Vietnam war. Westmoreland always maintained that the U.S. military did ...