The Tet Offensive of 1968 was perhaps the key incident in the War for Vietnam. But the debate surrounding the offensive continues: Was it a failed last-gasp effort by the defeated North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong allies? Or was it part of a larger plan that led to victory for the North Vietnamese and their allies? The essays in this volume are among the very first to seek to dispel the wishful thinking, analytical dogmas, and political agendas that have obscured past efforts to master this key turning point in Vietnamese and American history. They reveal that we can look at the truth—and learn from it.
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A look at the Tet Offensive of 1968, without blinders.
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MARC JASON GILBERT is Professor of History at North Georgia University.
WILLIAM HEAD is Chief Center Historian at Warner Robins ALC, Robins AFB, Georgia.
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The Tet Offensive caused one of the deepest and most lasting of the many rents that the Vietnam or Second Indochina War made in the fabric of American life: hence the reputation of that campaign as the Vietnam War's Vietnam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
offensive and its aftermath, senior foreign policy advisors, reinforcement request, khoi nghia, combat base, twentieth parallel, southern revolutionaries, southern guerrillas, sapper units, main force units, maneuver battalions, psychological victory, general uprising, prohibited zones, seventeenth parallel, general offensive, communist offensive, intelligence failure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Khe Sanh, United States, North Vietnamese, New York, Viet Cong, General Westmoreland, President Johnson, Rolling Thunder, Dien Bien Phu, White House, General Wheeler, Tom Johnson, Truong Chinh, Clark Clifford, Lao Dong, Lyndon Johnson, Viet Nam, Captain Duc, Nguyen Chi Thanh, Central Committee, Ben Tre, Southeast Asia, Soviet Union, General Giap, Quang Tri New!
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The Tet Offensive caused one of the deepest and most lasting of the many rents that the Vietnam or Second Indochina War made in the fabric of American life: hence the reputation of that campaign as the Vietnam War's Vietnam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
offensive and its aftermath, senior foreign policy advisors, reinforcement request, khoi nghia, combat base, twentieth parallel, southern revolutionaries, southern guerrillas, sapper units, main force units, maneuver battalions, psychological victory, general uprising, prohibited zones, seventeenth parallel, general offensive, communist offensive, intelligence failure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Khe Sanh, United States, North Vietnamese, New York, Viet Cong, General Westmoreland, President Johnson, Rolling Thunder, Dien Bien Phu, White House, General Wheeler, Tom Johnson, Truong Chinh, Clark Clifford, Lao Dong, Lyndon Johnson, Viet Nam, Captain Duc, Nguyen Chi Thanh, Central Committee, Ben Tre, Southeast Asia, Soviet Union, General Giap, Quang Tri New!
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- A Soldier Reports by William C. Westmoreland on 9 pages
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- The End of the Line: The Siege of Khe Sanh by Robert Pisor on 6 pages
- The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by James J. Wirtz on 6 pages
- The Big Story by Peter Braestrup on 4 pages
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