Vietnam MACV Command, Attrition Warfare, and Army Reform Era

An Army general who held command as top commander of the military assistance command for US forces from 1964 during the Vietnam War, which was the front line of the Cold War. He promoted an "attrition strategy" aimed at exhausting the enemy, aiming for victory through the deployment of massive ground forces and overwhelming firepower. However, the 1968 "Tet Offensive" exposed the bogging down of the war situation. It triggered an intensification of domestic anti-war movements, and he was relieved of his post in the same year. A tragic military officer who symbolizes the limits inherent in Cold War containment policy and the anguish of the superpower United States.

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