General Giap believed that the Tet offensive would cause the citizens and the Army of South Vietnam to lose confidence in their government.
It didn't. The First Tet Offensive demoralized the US and played a large part in our decision to pull out of Vietnam. The weird thing about Tet is, the North Vietnamese actually lost on the battlefield.
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The Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive .
A percentage said My Lai; a percentage said Tet; by far the largest percentage said the DRAFT! Watching My Lai and Tet on television was one thing. Recieving your draft notice in the mail was quite another!
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No , the Tet Offensive was during the Vietnam War .
It didn't. The First Tet Offensive demoralized the US and played a large part in our decision to pull out of Vietnam. The weird thing about Tet is, the North Vietnamese actually lost on the battlefield.
Tet Offensive
Tet Offensive.
With the possible exception of tiny villages hidden somewhere, all cities in SOUTH Vietnam were attacked.
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TET offensive '68.
Vietnam in HD - 2011 The Tet Offensive 1-3 was released on: USA: 8 November 2011
The Tet offensive by North Vietnam used the VC (Viet Cong) as it's primary offensive weapon by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) and in so doing the VC were never as potent as an opposing field force to Allied combatants ,After Tet the NVA shouldered the burden of conducting offensive operations against the Allies : the Vietnam War became a war conducted/fought by conventional armies in contrast to a guerrilla war .
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Quite apart from throwing suspicion upon the competence of U.S. and South Vietnamese leaders to assess North Vietnamese war-making capacity, the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War had this significant effect: it convinced numerous leaders and observers in the West that the Vietnam War was far from over. With war protests already growing in the United States yet now increasing, the effect of the Tet Offensive, despite that it was a military defeat, amounted to a diplomatic-political "win" for North Vietnam.