Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Roger Hilsman

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Roger Hilsman Jr. was an American soldier, government official, political scientist, and author. He saw action in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II, first with Merrill's Marauders, getting wounded in combat, and then as a guerilla leader for the Office of Strategic Services. He later became an aide and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, and briefly to President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the U.S. State Department while he served as Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1961 to 1963 and Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in 1963 to 1964.

American - Soldier | November 23, 1919 - February 23, 2014

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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

Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.

Roger Hilsman

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

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

Roger Hilsman

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

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Roger Hilsman

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