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	Home Appraisal Fort Worth Appraiser Texas - Reference Desk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Eastertide Offensive was a military campaign in the Vietnam War.
		The offensive began on 30 March 1972, when 200,000 North Vietnamese Army troops under the command of General Vo Nguyen Giap, entered the demilitarized zone of South Vietnam and attacked the city of Quang Tri.
		The North Vietnamese Army withdrew from the offensive on Kontum on 30 May, and An Loc on 11 July.
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	Vietnam War
		Although neither of these offensives accomplished any military objectives, the surprising capacity of an enemy that was supposedly on the verge of collapse to even launch such an offensive convinced many Americans that victory was impossible.
		The 94th Congress eventually voted for a total cut off of all aid to take effect at the beginning of the 1975-76 financial year (July 1, 1975).
		On January 15, 1973, citing progress in peace negotiations, President Nixon announced the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam which was later followed by a unilateral withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vi/Vietnam_war.html (3197 words)

	The History Place - Vietnam War 1969-1975
		The offensive is a tremendous gamble by Giap and is undertaken as a result of U.S. troop withdrawal, the strength of the anti-war movement in America likely preventing a U.S. retaliatory response, and the poor performance of South Vietnam's Army during Operation Lam Son 719 in 1971.
		During the failed offensive, the North suffered an estimated 100,000 military casualties and lost half its tanks and artillery.
		Leader of the offensive, legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap, the victor at Dien Bien Phu, was then quietly ousted in favor of his deputy Gen. Van Tien Dung.
	www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html (5665 words)

	Vietnam War: Battles
		These attacks, which came to be known as the Tet Offensive, were planned to coincide with Tet Nguyen Dan, the lunar new year festival, one of the most important Vietnamese holidays.
		South Vietnamese and U.S. forces were quick to characterize the Tet Offensive as a failure since all North Vietnamese gains made during the attack were eventually reversed, but it was a major psychological victory for the North which had previously been characterized as being on the verge of collapse.
		The American people, many of which were beginning to question the wisdom of this war, could no longer be convinced that there was a light swiftly approaching at the end of the tunnel.
	www.usefultrivia.com /war_trivia/vietnam_war_trivia_006b.html (176 words)

	The Vietnam War - The Bitter End 1969 - 1975
		March-September - The Eastertide Offensive occurs as 200,000 North Vietnamese soldiers under the command of General Vo Nguyen Giap wage an all-out attempt to conquer South Vietnam.
		April 2, 1972 - In response to the Eastertide Offensive, President Nixon authorizes the U.S. 7th Fleet to target NVA troops massed around the Demilitarized Zone with air strikes and naval gunfire.
		May 8, 1972 - In response to the ongoing NVA Eastertide Offensive, President Nixon announces Operation Linebacker I, the mining of North Vietnam's harbors along with intensified bombing of roads, bridges, and oil facilities.
	www.vietnamwar.com /timeline69-75.htm (6326 words)

	Vietnam War - North Texas Vets - Some Gave All, All Gave Some - None Will Be Forgotten
		In many ways the Vietnam War was a direct successor to the French Indochina War, which is sometimes referred to as the First Indochina War, when the French fought to maintain control of their colony in Indochina against an independence movement led by Communist Party leader Ho Chi Minh.
		The Tet '68 offensive was a major defeat for the VC and the NVA.
		Though they are still too weak to launch a full-scale offensive, the North Vietnamese have rebuilt their divisions in the South, and have captured key areas.
	www.northtexasvets.com /WarPages/VietnamWar.html (9776 words)

	Major Battles of the Vietnam War
		It was a major offensive by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong (VC or NLF) beginning on the night of January 30-31, 1968, Tet Nguyen Den (the lunar new year day).
		General Weyland won the battle for Saigon at that meeting when he asked that the border offensive be postponed and certain units be returned to their positions in the populated areas.
		The Eastertide Offensive began when 200,000 North Vietnamese soldiers under the command of General Vo Nguyen Giap waged an all-out attempt to conquer South Vietnam on March 30, 1972.
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	TheHistoryNet \| Vietnam \| North Vietnamese Army's 1972 Eastertide Offensive
		To no appreciable gain, the NVA’s 1972 Eastertide Offensive cost them more than 100,000 casualties and most of their tanks and heavy artillery.
		Four years earlier, with the Tet Offensive of 1968, he had thought it was the relationship between the South Vietnamese people and their government.
		Better known as the "Eastertide Offensive," it dropped all pretense of guerrilla war.
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	Vietnam Ceasefire 30 Mar 1972 - 28 Jan 1973
		The Eastertide Offensive begins as 200,000 NVA soldiers under General Vo Nguyen Giap attack to split South Vietnam in half by capturing Quang Tri, Kontum and An Loc.
		In response to the Eastertide Offensive, President Nixon authorizes the U.S. 7th Fleet to target NVA troops massed around the Demilitarized Zone with air strikes and naval gunfire.
		Due to the ongoing NVA Eastertide Offensive, the U.S. mines North Vietnam's harbors and intensifies bombing of roads, bridges, and oil facilities in Operation Linebacker I. The announcement brings international condemnation of the U.S. and ignites more anti-war protests in America.
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	Wikipedia: Vietnam War
		In February 1966 there was a meeting between the commander of the U.S. effort, head of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam General William Westmoreland and Johnson in Honolulu.
		Westmoreland argued that the US presence had prevented a defeat but that more troops were needed to take the offensive, he claimed that an immediate increase could lead to the "cross-over point" in Vietcong and NVA casualties being reached in early 1967.
		The continued escalation of American involvement came as the Johnson administration and Westmoreland repeatedly assured the American public that the next round of troop increases would bring victory.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/v/vi/vietnam_war.html (6522 words)

	Special Operations.Com
		To increase the margin of safety, the Marines embarked on a phased redeployment in their sector to put a buffer of about 20 kilometers of territory between coalition forces and the Iraqis.
		As long as airpower could reach deep to stop the offensive, the coalition ground forces in the area would not have to be reinforced, and Schwarzkopf would not have to reposition the redeploying Army forces.
		With the offensive now about 24 hours old, and Saudi and Qatari forces pressing in on Khafji, bringing up reinforcements was the only chance for Iraq to recover the initiative or to try again to draw the coalition into a ground battle.
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	Untitled Document
		In the chaos of the Tet Offensive, cameramen captured SVN police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong in the streets of Saigon, a lasting image of the Tet Offensive and American failure in Vietnam.
		Commentary While the Tet Offensive convinced millions of Americans that they had been lied to and that the war could not be won, one of the great ironies of the Vietnam War was the fact that the Tet Offensive was a tactical victory for the US.
		However, the Tet Offensive ultimately became a decisive victory for Vietnamese communists, as it shocked the American public and largely led Walter Cronkite to announce on the CBS evening news that America probably could not win the war.
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	Epinions.com - "Never Take Counsel Of Your Fears"
		"Offensive action is necessary to achieve decisive results and to maintain freedom of action." The most important information I gleaned from this chapter is that there are four variants of waging a war: strategic offensive, strategic defensive, tactical offensive, and tactical defensive.
		On the other hand, the United States, (rather than focusing on the source of the war - the North Vietnamese), became enmeshed in dealing with a symptom of the war - mainly the guerrilla warfare in South Vietnam.
		Summers states, "The United States was on the strategic defensive, but confused that posture with the strategic offensive." Adding fuel to this destructive fire, President Johnson refused to call up The Reserves because he thought the American public would view this as 'too costly' in terms of lives, thereby wholly unacceptable.
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	AMERICAN FUTURE - Trying to make sense of a world in turmoil » Vietnam
		They may be right, that Hanoi's winter-spring offensive has been forced by the Communist realization that they could not win the longer war of attrition, and that the Communists hope that any success in the offensive will improve their position for eventual negotiations.
		The Tet offensive was an unmitigated disaster for the communists.
		The Tet offensive proved to be a military disaster for the Vietnamese communists.
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	Vietnam War - Databank
		On March 31, 1968, in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive, Operation Rolling Thunder was restricted to encourage the North to negotiate.
		Beginning March 30, the "Eastertide Offensive" quickly overran much of Military Region 1, formerly known as I Corps, including Quang Tri, and threatened the city of Hue.
		Early in April the North Vietnamese opened three additional fronts in the offensive in the Central Highlands and Binh Dinh province of Military Region 2, and against An Loc in Military Region 3, threatening to overrun the entire country.
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	AMERICAN FUTURE - Trying to make sense of a world in turmoil » 2005 » August
		The surprise offensive is closely observed by American TV news crews in Vietnam which film the U.S. embassy in Saigon being attacked by 17 Viet Cong commandos, along with bloody scenes from battle areas showing American soldiers under fire, dead and wounded.
		The offensive is a tremendous gamble by Giap and is undertaken as a result of U.S. troop withdrawal and the strength of the anti-war movement in America likely preventing a U.S. retaliatory response.
		During the failed Eastertide offensive, North Vietnam suffered an estimated 100,000 military casualties and lost half its tanks and artillery.
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	Big Guns of Camp Carroll
		Five Marine infantry battalions were inserted into landing zones and given the mission of establishing blocking positions along enemy trails and killing enemy soldiers.
		The U.S. Army adviser to the ARVN at Camp Carroll noted that the enemy incoming rounds caused tremendous morale problems because the South Vietnamese were not used to being on the receiving end of accurate artillery fire.
		A Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, Peter Brush was stationed at Camp Carroll in 1967 and 1968 and revisited the area in 1993.
	www.library.vanderbilt.edu /central/brush/Camp-Carroll.htm (3672 words)

	Qwika - similar:Vietnam_War
		The Eastertide Offensive (also known as the Nguyen Hue Offensive) was a military campaign in the Vietnam War.
		The offensive began on 30 March 1972, when 200,000 North Vietnamese Army troops under...
		The National Order of Vietnam was a combined military-civilian decoration of South Vietnam and was considered the highest honor that could be bestowed upon an individual by the Republic of Vietnam government.
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	ABOUT VETERANS SKYTROOPERS HOMEPAGE
		During the 1968 Tet Offensive the Communists attacked 155 cities, towns and hamlets in South Vietnam.
		On the best day ever, there were 43,500 ground troops actually engaged in offensive combat operations, i.e., out in the boondocks, "Tiptoeing through the tulips" looking for, or actually in contact with, the enemy.
		This ratio of support to line troops is also comparable with other wars, and helps dispel the notion that every troop in Vietnam was engaged in mortal combat on a daily basis.
	www.skytroopers.org /vietnamlookingback2.htm (3196 words)

	1971-1979: This Far and No Further
		March-September: The Eastertide Offensive occurs as 200,000 North Vietnamese soldiers under the command of General Giap wage an all-out attempt to conquer South Vietnam.
		May 8: In response to the ongoing NVA Eastertide Offensive, Nixon announces Operation Linebacker I, the mining of North Vietnam's harbors along with intensified bombing of roads, bridges, and oil facilities.
		The leader of the offensive, legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap, the victor at Dien Bien Phu, was then quietly ousted in favor of his deputy, General Van Tien Dung.
	www.iraqtimeline.com /1971.html (15874 words)

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		I believe that some of that operation plan was used during one of the last Lam Son operations- the incursion by southern forces into Laos prior to the Eastertide offensive.
		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.
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	Vietnam War Statistics and Facts
		Conventional wisdom has it that the Tet Offensive was the “turning point” where the American people lost faith in the war.
		On the best day ever, there were 43,500 ground troops actually engaged in offensive combat operations, i.e., out in the boondocks, looking for, or actually in contact with, the enemy.
		This ratio of support to offensive line troops is also comparable to other wars, and helps dispel the notion that every troop in Vietnam was engaged in mortal combat on a daily basis.
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	Viet
		The third battle major battle was the Tet Offensive.
		Offensive because of the fact that the Tet offensive
		This battle was named for the number of Deaths.
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	ipedia.com: Vietnam War Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bound up with the lack of official war status was the concept of escalation, which used the analogy of an escalator rising slowly but steadily to facilitate gradual entry into warfare as opposed to the traditional declaration of war with its attendant widescale mobilization and straightforward hostilities.
		Under escalation, U.S. involvement increased over a period of years, beginning with the deployment of non-combatant military advisors to the South Vietnamese army, to use of special forces for commando-style operations, to introduction of regular troops whose purpose was to be defensive only, to using regular troops in offensive combat.
		Eastertide Offensive -- March 30 - October 22, 1972
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	Decades History Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Anatoly Diamianovich Kuntsevich was in charge of the secret development of the gases and post-Soviet disarmament and the information about the battlefield sensors was revealed by former Soviet scientist Vil Mirzayanov.
		President Bush announced that the allied ground offensive against Iraqi forces had begun (because of the time difference, it was already the early morning of February 24th in the Persian Gulf).
		Lessons learned in the savage 1972 Eastertide Offensive paid off at the Battle of Khafji in the Gulf War almost two decades later.
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	Vietnam War - Firepower Air Doctrine Rolling Thunder Linebacker Strategy Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An incredible 76,000 tons of the total came from B-52 bombers arriving in "three ships" every 90 minutes and bombing as close as 300 yards to friendly troops.
		A massive offensive launched by North Vietnam on March 30, 1972 using regular North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops, artillery and tanks.rolled into South Vietnam.
		It was a huge miscalculation by the North and it cost them dearly with NVA casualties eventually exceeding 100,000 with at least half of their large caliber artillery and tanks lost as well.
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