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To: unclewest who wrote (449877)	10/9/2011 11:07:01 AM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation of 793928

What would be very efective is for you and several other SF people to write your book.....Also, contact Cain and Romney both....Explain to each of them why it is so important.... Reading that review...this sentence and paragraph stuck out....don't we have any strategic planners any more? If not, why? >>>>>It was Westmoreland—not Lyndon Johnson or even Robert McNamara—who decided to fight a "war of attrition," sending large and cumbersome American formations to thrash through the jungle and rice paddies in search of elusive enemy units. It was Westmoreland who kept demanding more American troops and who encouraged them to fire as many artillery rounds as possible—even if they lacked specific targets. It was Westmoreland who made "body counts" the key metric of the entire war effort in the futile hope that the United States could inflict enough casualties on the Communists to make them cry "Uncle!" He did not seem to realize or care that in the process he was inflicting lesser but still considerable casualties on American forces—and that a democracy like the United States was much more casualty-averse than a one-party dictatorship like North Vietnam. <<<<<

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