The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
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?
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
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.
The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
We had the best food any battlefield ever had.
I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.
