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	Chapter VIII: The Enemy Spring Offensive of 1972 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The military objectives of the offensive were not known, but intelligence sources reported that its goal would be the destruction of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
		Unfortunately, the decision to dispense with the vehicle-launched bridge section was not reconsidered, and lack of bridging during the enemy offensive proved a major factor in the loss of tanks.
		The artillery offensive was followed by infantry and armor attacks in the east across the Ben Hai River following the axis of QL (Route) 1 in the west toward the district capital of Cam Lo and Camp Carroll.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/mounted/chapter8.htm (6884 words)

	VIETNAM: EASTER OFFENSIVE 1972
		Efforts to reduce the aggressive capabilities of the North Vietnamese and to strengthen the South Vietnamese were primary goals of the Nixon administration, necessary to prepare the way for the successful withdrawal of American troops.
		As early as November 1971, the intelligence community, the government of South Vietnam, and U.S. and South Vietnamese Army commanders anticipated a significant enemy offensive in 1972, on the scale of the Tet attack of 1968.
		The Easter Offensive was conventional warfare, between the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) regulars and the Army of South Vietham (ARVN) with the latter backed up by U.S. air power.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_vietnam_easter1972.php (898 words)

	Easter Offensive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Easter Offensive (also known as the Nguyen Hue Offensive or Spring Offensive) was a military campaign in the Vietnam Conflict.
		However, it was during this offensive that the North Vietnamese failed as the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) put up heavy resistance and inflicted much damage on their opponents, the result was a military disaster for North Vietnam.
		This wave of attacks was followed by offensives against Kontum Province on 12 April and the city of An Loc, in Binh Long Province on 19 April.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastertide_Offensive (845 words)

	The Easter Halt -- September 1998
		Moreover, Communist strategy might have had a personal edge to it: The architect of the offensive was Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, whose questionable tactics in the Battle of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive in 1968 ended in bloody debacles costing North Vietnam some 100,000 casualties.
		The Easter Offensive was a massive conventional attack.
		On the eve of the Easter Offensive, Giap's confidence in his ability to gain military victory was high, but not unreasonably so, given the great decline in the number of American ground forces in South Vietnam.
	www.afa.org /magazine/Sept1998/0998easter.asp (2879 words)

	The Easter Offensive of 1972: A Failure
		While most areas of South Vietnam encountered NVA ground force activity during the Easter Offensive of 1972, it was the northern-most portion of the country, the Quang Tri Province, which bore the initial and most severe brunt of the NVA's conventional ground campaign.
		During the 1972 Easter Offensive, the lack of SIGINT collected was, in and of itself, a possible indicator.
		The "intelligence failure" during the Easter Offensive was less a failure to collect intelligence than it was a failure to exploit obvious indicators.
	www.fas.org /irp/agency/army/tradoc/usaic/mipb/1998-1/BAKERfnl.htm (2314 words)

	April
		The Nguyen Hue Offensive (later known as the "Easter Offensive") was a massive invasion by North Vietnamese forces designed to strike the blow that would win the war for the communists.
		This offensive, later more commonly known as the "Easter Offensive," was a massive invasion by North Vietnamese forces designed to strike the blow that would win the war for the communists.
		The offensive was based on three objectives: Quang Tri in the north, Kontum in the Central Highlands, and An Loc in the south--just 65 miles north of Saigon.
	vietnamresearch.com /dates/april.html (11459 words)

	The Communists AFV
		The K-63 was exported by the Chinese to the NVA and was first encountered during the 1972 "Easter Offensive".
		Encountered occasionally in the south during and after the 1972 "Easter Offensive" the vehicle was a formidable opponent for lightly armed forces.
		One example was captured by ARVN troops during the 1972 "Easter Offensive".
	vietnamresearch.com /armor/NVA_armor.html (1184 words)

	North Vietnam's Final Offensive: Strategic Endgame Nonpareil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The seeds of the 1975 communist offensive were planted during two high-level military conferences held in Hanoi in March and April 1974 to review the military situation.[2] These conferences concluded that PAVN had regained the initiative in the South for the first time since the 1972 Easter Offensive.
		The offensive plan for 1975 was divided into three phases and was to be followed in 1976 by a "general offensive and general uprising" to complete the "liberation" of the South.
		Phase two, the heart of the 1975 offensive, would begin in March 1975 with a corps-sized attack on the border outpost of Duc Lap on Route 14 at the southern end of the Central Highlands.
	25thaviation.org /id1044.htm (3977 words)

	Easter Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This is a excellent account of the 1972 Easter Offensive in Vietnam during the final stages of the American troop withdrawals.
		This book acknowledges and does not condemn the fun involved in the secular celebrations of Easter, including the Easter Bunny, but also smoothly points out that they are not the most important part.
		This is a lively, straightforward and factual account of the circumstances in which one of the most important political documents of the 20th century was created.
	www.holiday-book-reviews.com /Easter/Easter_35.html (3154 words)

	Donklephant » Blog Archive » Nor Easter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A small Easter display was removed from the City Hall lobby on Wednesday out of concern that it would offend non-Christians.
		Let me get this straight, these police state hacks are removing a display of the secular EASTER BUNNY because Easter has connotations of Christ and according to these anti-religion **tards, connotations to religion might be offensive** to some people.
		Easter is one of the cutest holidays because of all the stuffed animals!
	donklephant.com /2006/03/28/2032 (838 words)

	IAM(also)CANADIAN: A Non Offensive PC Easter
		Here is the Easter story written to be politically correct, and inclusive to all cultures and races.
		One Thursday the Easter Bunny and 12 of his non gender specific friends got together for a vegetarian meal.
		The body of the Easter Bunny had to be removed from the cross and buried before the following day.
	alsocanadian.blogspot.com /2005/03/non-offensive-pc-easter.html (662 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The Easter Offensive and the bridge at Dong Ha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Generously supplied with seemingly unlimited artillery, Soviet armor and the latest air-defense weapons, reports of the NVA strength and battlefield successes were, for the first few days, not believed by the South Vietnamese general staff and their senior American advisers way down yonder in Saigon.
		While John Ripley's actions on Easter Sunday of 1972 would make him a legend among his brother covans and professional contemporaries, he was at least evenly matched with the man who led the Soi Bien.
		The Easter Offensive ended in failure for the NVA, in no small part thanks to the efforts of the Vietnamese Marine Corps and their faithful advisers.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34046 (2320 words)

	History: Vietnamization and its Effects
		Another potential problem was the vulnerability of ammunition dums; the enemy had destroyed over 24,000 short tons of depot ammunition during the Easter offensive alone.
		Following the Easter offensive of 1972, MACV and the Joint Cheifs of Staff suddenly decided that further additions had to be made.
		Because of the timing of the attacks, they were quickly called the "Easter Offensive." Through all of this, the North Vietnamese had only won two district towns, Loc Ninh, near the Cambodian border, and Dong Ha, opposite the Demilitarised zone, a small showing for the heavy prices they paid.
	www.cyberessays.com /History/39.htm (3741 words)

	Easter Offensive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Easter Offensive is the nickname of a major North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.
		The North Vietnamese offensive against the South began on Easter Sunday, 30 March 1972.
		Although the offensive did not accomplish the goals of inflicting a major defeat on the south Vietnamese Army, the heavy reliance on American air support and logistics on the part of The South Vietnamese was very obvious.
	easter-offensive.kiwiki.homeip.net (402 words)

	Microsoft Bans Easter Eggs! - Easter Egg Discussions
		I personally feel that easter eggs are a fun way for programmers to personalize their product, to get a little credit, and to make working on a product more fun.
		I understand MS' worry about easter eggs, but I feel that the programmers should be allow to express themselves by implanting easter eggs, as long as they are harmless and not offensive.
		But I agree that an unapproved easter egg is grounds for termination - the potential consequences of a bad egg discovered at the wrong time can be enormous.
	www.eeggs.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/000002.html (2736 words)

	The Vietnam War > University Without Walls Spring 2004
		The 1972 Spring Offensive (sometimes called the Easter Offensive or the Nguyen Hue Campaign) was a huge, three-pronged attack by PAVN forces designed to strike a decisive blow against the Republic of Vietnam.
		Within weeks of the start at the end of March, large conventional battles were being fought simultaneously on three major fronts.
		With that, the 1972 Spring Offensive of North Vietnam had failed, even though PAVN controlled more territory in South Vietnam than before.
	www2.skidmore.edu /uww/vietnam/spring_offensive.htm (263 words)

	Easter Offensive 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Just before the Easter, Sharon’s government began what careful Kofi Annan described as a ‘conventional war’ with jets, tanks and helicopters against defenceless civilian population.
		Passion is a story of supreme self-sacrifice of the Chosen one for the sake of universal salvation, the Haggadah is a story of sacrificing the enemies and salvation of the Chosen ones.
		On the other hand, a grandson of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, wrote: ‘Christianity is the sublime Judaist thought, while Judaism is a sordid utilitarian application of Christianity’.
	www.israelshamir.net /English/Easter_Offensive1.htm (1063 words)

	WWII - Europe - Battle of the Bulge
		According to Sexton, the author covers the German Ardennes offensive of 1944, the Chinese intervention in Korea in 1950, and the Soviet deployment of missiles in Cuba in 1961.
		The author compares and discusses the role of warning intelligence in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive of 1972.
		He concludes: "Though the location, numbers and types of forces were not the same, the command assumptions, the weather and the use and misuse of intelligence had almost the same catastrophic effects in both clashes....
	intellit.muskingum.edu /wwii_folder/wwiieurope_folder/wwiieurbulge.html (644 words)

	Operation Freedom Train / Operation Linebacker I
		The increase was due to the preemptive operations by allied forces in preparation for an expected large-scale enemy offensive during Tet which did not materialize.
		This "Easter or Spring Offensive" was the result of the long buildup and infiltration of NVN forces during previous months and presaged some of the most intense fighting of the entire war.
		The magnitude of the North Vietnam offensive indicated that an extended logistics network and increased resupply routes would be required to sustain ground operations by North Vietnam in their invasion of South Vietnam.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/linebacker-1.htm (1644 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Cronkite's "Success" by Arnaud de Borchgrave
		Surprised by this congressional decision, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the Communist supremo, said in his memoirs, he had to improvise a general offensive against Saigon whose capture he reckoned would not be possible for another two years.
		While failure is not an option, failure has become a real possibility with Vietnam war hero Congressman John Murtha, D-Pa., and Cronkite conceding defeat not only to the insurgents but also to al-Qaida-in-Mesopotamia - and to the mullahcracy in Iran that sees its influence growing in Shiite Iraq (60 percent of the population).
		Alarmingly reminiscent of the buzz on the home front after the Tet offensive, wild exaggerations are now the norm among the anti-war scribes.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20951 (978 words)

	No passion for Easter Bunny at church show - - MSNBC.com
		Bickerton portrayed the Easter rabbit and said she tried to act with a tone of irreverence.
		We wanted to convey that Easter is not just about the Easter bunny, it is about Jesus Christ,” Bickerton said.
		Performers broke eggs meant for an Easter egg hunt and also portrayed a drunken man and a self-mutilating woman, said Jennifer Norelli-Burke, another parent who saw the show in Glassport, a community about 10 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4693430 (386 words)

	B.C. Easter Comic - Offensive? [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The menorah, with its seven candles, to Jesus and the Jews, was symbolic and emblematic of the many facets of Jewish life and worship.
		Every year, he very pointedly presents the true meanings of Christmas and Easter in his strip, and every year he gets his mammary gland in the mangle for it.
		The artists in question said that their works were not intended to offend - however the point is that it would be nice if you Christian could admit that you share the world with others and not pretend that others are worthy of respect.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3ad7d07817f1.htm (3415 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Vietnam \| Eastertide Offensive Lessons for the Gulf War
		The savage 1972 Eastertide Offensive in Vietnam provided an invaluable lesson for Marines in the Gulf War two decades later.
		After two days of running, on Easter Sunday, at around 9 o'clock in the morning, we were in 6-foot-high elephant grass--almost out of the jungle.
		The Eastertide Offensive was a product of the North Vietnamese having changed to commanders who were well schooled in Soviet conventional tactics.
	www.historynet.com /vn/bllessonslearnedkafji (915 words)

	Petaluma Valley Baptist Church
		The city's human rights director, Tyrone Terrill, noticed the display and sent the secretary an email advising her that Easter is viewed as a Christian holiday and therefore her display had to be taken down because it could be offensive to non-Christians and had no place on government property.
		At this point, the secretary, who said that she had no interest in being drawn into a big debate, removed the offensive Christian Easter symbols--a stuffed Easter bunny, some colored eggs and some marshmallow peeps.
		But the truth is, there is no Easter Story if the child in the manger isn’t also the Savior who dies on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins.
	www.petalumabaptist.org /sermons/2006_04_16.php (1396 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Summer 1999
		Thus, with all in readiness for the coming offensive, MACV brought to bear on the enemy buildup everything it had--within the still restrictive rules of engagement.
		One important result of the Easter Offensive was the relief from command of certain ARVN incompetents.
		By MACV's calculations the enemy had initiated the offensive on the night of 30 March in MR-1, on 31 March on the B-3 Front, and on 1 April in western MR-3.
	www.carlisle.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/99summer/sorley.htm (7602 words)

	The War We Could Have Won (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Vietcong were basically defeated by the beginning of 1972, which is why the North Vietnamese launched a huge conventional offensive at the end of March that year.
		During the Easter Offensive of 1972 - at the time the biggest campaign of the war - the South Vietnamese Army was able to hold onto every one of the 44 provincial capitals except Quang Tri, which it regained a few months later.
		If the United States had provided that level of support in 1975, when South Vietnam collapsed in the face of another North Vietnamese offensive, the outcome might have been at least the same as in 1972.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17908 (1006 words)

	A mini-Tet offensive ? - The Washington Times: Commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Any seasoned reporter covering the Tet offensive in Vietnam 36 years ago is well over 60 and presumably retired or teaching journalism at one of America's 4,200 colleges and universities.
		Hanoi's Easter offensive in March 1972 was another disaster for the communists.
		As he recounts in his memoirs, Hanoi had to improvise a general offensive — and then rolled into Saigon two years before they had reckoned it might become possible.
	www.washtimes.com /commentary/20040415-090923-9426r.htm (1243 words)

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