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.

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 ...

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 ...

Retired Army Gen. William Westmoreland said in Orlando Friday that stateside propaganda, not the military, was to blame for the outcome of the Vietnam War. “The military did not lose that war… ...

William Westmoreland says he will ”try to fade away.” The judge in the general`s now aborted libel case against CBS argues that ”it may be for the best that the verdict be left to history.” ...

The New York Times, citing recently declassified documents, said Saturday that in 1968, Gen. William Westmoreland activated a plan to move nukes to Vietnam if it looked like the US and its allies ...

THOUGH many tried to dissuade him, in 1974 William Westmoreland (General, US army, retired) ran for the governorship of South Carolina. He lost, and was not surprised. “I'm used to a structured ...

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 ...

Never overpromise and under deliver. General William Westmoreland should have followed that advice when he addressed the National Press Club fifty years ago today. Instead, the commanding general ...