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Westmoreland’s War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam, by Gregory A. Daddis, Oxford University Press, 2014 Addressing the seemingly dogged entanglement in South Vietnam with General William Westmoreland, Brig. Gen. Willard Holbrook Jr. advised the incoming chief of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) to avoid being made a scapegoat “for a situation for which there …
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