Talk:Frederick C. Weyand

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I have changed and added to information regarding today's editorial in the New York Times. I tried improving a paragraph that was already in place which I found very badly written and with not citation. I would like feedback. I actually think that perhaps the article on General Weyand should be longer than it is currently. --Ber06122 15:14, 11 December 2006 (UTC)Ber06122 15:14, 11 December 2006 (UTC)67.100.207.90 15:10, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Additional Info
I've tried pumping this article up from being a stub. Most of the article is copied directly from www.army.mil. It is extremely dry and I'll try to work on it. But General Weyand is an interesting enough figure to deserve a full article. --Ber06122 16:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I've smoothed some of the language and transitions so that it doesn't just read like a list of postings. I'd like to get some more content and photos in here.--Ber06122 20:12, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Tet Offensive
I read in Lewis Sorley's "A Better War" about how Weyand recognized NVA/VC activity in the hinterlands as diversionary as a precursor to the Tet Offensive. If I recall correctly, he withdrew several battalions into reserve in areas around Saigon (his AO at the time), which was responsible for significantly blunting the offensive and limiting success in that area.

I don't have my copy of "A Better War" with me and cannot speak with confidence, so someone who has better information may be in a better position to contribute more accurately to the article. But I believe it is very significant to this article, and speaks to the man's foresight and recognition of the enemy which Westmoreland failed to see. There is some info on Weyand in the Tet Offensive article that could be good to add to this page.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.238.59.36 (talk) 09:11, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Dates, NYT article
178.83.14.57 (talk) 09:09, 16 March 2010 (UTC) There's something screwy with the dates in the section on the events surrounding Weyand's NYT article. In this version, he reveals himself as the anonymous author of a controversial piece long before the appearance of the article!

--Ber06122 (talk) 16:10, 7 April 2010 (UTC) I have made stylistic changes to how I have written this portion of the article. But let me simplify this. General Weyand did not write an article. In 1967, he supplied a quote to Apple (a reporter for the Times)and Fromson (a reporter for CBS) on the condition that he remain anonymous. The quote was famous (and controversial) at the time because it was critical of U.S. military strategy at a time when the official line was that the military was succeeding, and it was attributed to a high ranking military official. In 2006, 39 years later, Fromson, the CBS reporter, wrote an editorial for the Times stating that General Weyand had given him (Fromson) permission to reveal that he (General Weyand) was the source of that 1967 quote.

Pronunciation
Could a knowledgeable person add the pronunciation for his surname? My initial guess would be WAY-and, but it could also be WEE-and or WHY-and. Other than Wikipedia, there's not really a reliable print source or Internet source to find pronunciations of names for all but the most prominent of historical figures. 153.31.113.20 (talk) 12:32, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
 * My da was a friend of his and it is more like WHY-end.