I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

By his own admission by early 1969 I think he had lost what a half million soldiers? He reported this. S. William Childs Westmoreland (March 26 1914 – July 18 2005) was a United States Army General who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak (1964–68) during the Tet Offensive.

He adopted a strategy of attrition against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army. S. He later served as U.