KNOWING WHEN A WAR IS UNWINNABLE — GENERAL FREDERICK C. WEYAND (GREAT CAPTAINS)

A BETTER PEACE presents another episode from the Great Captains series with Frank Jones and Jacqueline E. Whitt in "Knowing When a War is Unwinnable: General Frederick C. Weyand." Leveraging his intelligence background to survey the environment and the state of the South Vietnamese government and people, General Frederick C. Weyand saw that the dominant U.S. military strategy of conventional war was not going to succeed. Instead, it was better to concentrate on winning over the peoples in the rural areas. This led to open disagreements with U.S. military leaders, especially General Westmoreland, but Weyand's subsequent actions arguably saved Saigon during the Tet Offensive.