Roger Hilsman quotes

Roger Hilsman quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos .”
-- Roger Hilsman

#United States Quotes #Laos Quotes #Vietnam Quotes
“My idea was that the role of the special forces were to train Vietnamese to behave as guerrillas, harassing the supply lines down through the mountains of the, ah, the Viet Cong. And the special American special forces were to train their special forces to do that.”
-- Roger Hilsman

#Ideas Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Special Quotes
“Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.”
-- Roger Hilsman

#People Quotes #Movement Quotes #Saws Quotes
“I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla was with guerrillas. And I disbelieved that you could by bombing, ah, have any effect on the supplies coming down through the Ho Chi Minh trails.”
-- Roger Hilsman

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Leader Quotes
“I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.”
-- Roger Hilsman

#War Quotes #Village Life Quotes #Done Quotes

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