Concerned Quote by Bo Gritz

Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.

— Ben Rhodes

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?

— William Westmoreland

“Few people knew the shadowy history of the Special Operations Group that had operated out of Laos, but the numbers said it all: For…

— Craig Johnson

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to…

— Stephen Ambrose

“The U.S. troop level soared during the next two years, but Johnson never allowed U.S. ground forces to pursue the enemy across the border…

— Robert D Sander

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

— William Westmoreland

“The United States became engaged in hostilities with North Vietnam on November 1, 1955, when President Eisenhower deployed the Military Assistance Advisory Group as…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability…

— Melvin Laird

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in…

— Will Rogers

“Although Nixon stepped up military pressure by bombing heavily and greatly expanding South Vietnamese forces, the enemy did not bend. Nor did détente with…

— James T. Patterson

“found. However, in my research for this book, I come across the same incident with the same guys only the location is in the…

— Gerald Naekel

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

— William Westmoreland