I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we ca….

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view..

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

War is fear cloaked in courage..

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names..

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation..

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?.

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news..

The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else..

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..

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind..

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath..

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam..

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there..

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country..

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning..

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character..

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves..

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected..

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars..