Westmoreland secretly crafted plan in 1968 to move nukes to Vietnam in case the war deteriorated

[basquebromance]

huge revelation in new book. LBJ stopped that plan. thank God for LBJ

Michael Beschloss on Twitter

 

[Sunni Man]

Waste-more-land, his nickname among us soldiers at the time, was using WWll large scale European ground war tactics to fight an Asian jungle guerrilla war.

He was the wrong General to be in charge the Vietnam war. ....

 

[night_son]

Waste-more-land, his nickname among us soldiers at the time, was using WWll large scale European ground war tactics to fight an Asian jungle guerrilla war.

He was the wrong General to be in charge the Vietnam war. ....

A faux pas to be repeated thirty years later in the attempt to apply mass division on division echelon warfare against insurgent enemy combatant terrorist dudes.

 

[Doc1]

There is so much that American's don't know.

"Operation Northwoods"

peration Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The plans detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.[2] The proposals were rejected by the Kennedy administration.[3][4][5]

At the time of the proposal, communists led by Fidel Castro had recently taken power in Cuba. The operation proposed creating public support for a war against Cuba by blaming it for terrorist acts that would actually be perpetrated by the U.S. Government.[6] To this end, Operation Northwoods proposals recommended hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government. It stated:

"The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere."

Operation Northwoods - Wikipedia

 

[Doc1]

"Operation Paperclip"

Operation Paperclip was a secret program of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) largely carried out by Special Agents of Army CIC, in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, such as Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team, were recruited, after the end of World War II, in Germany and taken to the U.S. for government employment, primarily between 1945 and 1959. Many were former members, and some were former leaders, of the Nazi Party.[1][2]

The primary purpose for Operation Paperclip was U.S. military advantage in the Soviet–American Cold War, and the Space Race. The Soviet Union were more aggressive in forcibly recruiting (at gunpoint) more than 2,200 German specialists—a total of more than 6,000 people including family members—with Operation Osoaviakhim during one night on October 22, 1946.[3]

The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) established the first secret recruitment program, called Operation Overcast, on July 20, 1945, initially "to assist in shortening the Japanese war and to aid our postwar military research".[4] The term "Overcast" was the name first given by the German scientists' family members for the housing camp where they were held in Bavaria.[5] In late summer 1945, the JCS established the JIOA, a subcommittee of the Joint Intelligence Community, to directly oversee Operation Overcast and later Operation Paperclip.[6] The JIOA representatives included the army's director of intelligence, the chief of naval intelligence, the assistant chief of Air Staff-2 (air force intelligence), and a representative from the State Department.[7] In November 1945, Operation Overcast was renamed Operation Paperclip by Ordnance Corps (United States Army) officers, who would attach a paperclip to the folders of those rocket experts whom they wished to employ in America.[5]

Operation Paperclip - Wikipedia

 

[danielpalos]

huge revelation in new book. LBJ stopped that plan. thank God for LBJ

Michael Beschloss on Twitter

against a relative third world power. why was our general staff not proclaiming how easy it is to win simply Because we have exorbitantly expensive superpower?

 

[mikegriffith1]

Talk about picking the wrong man at the wrong time for the wrong job. Westmoreland was a disaster. LBJ should have fired him after his first year as commander in Vietnam. To be fair, Westmoreland was hampered by the absurd LBJ-McNamara rules of engagement, but this does not excuse his bungling and incompetence.

 

[danielpalos]

Talk about picking the wrong man at the wrong time for the wrong job. Westmoreland was a disaster. LBJ should have fired him after his first year as commander in Vietnam. To be fair, Westmoreland was hampered by the absurd LBJ-McNamara rules of engagement, but this does not excuse his bungling and incompetence.

everything for the general warfare and common offense; and nothing but complaints for the general welfare.

 

[Windparadox]

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A more through article about this can be read here; U.S. General Considered Nuclear Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show

 

[basquebromance]

during its last phase, the Vietnam war seized the imagination, roused the dismay of hundreds of millions of Americans, while destroying one president and contributing to the downfall of another

 

[danielpalos]

new castles or new cities.

it should be a goal.