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	Tet Offensive of 1968
		The Tet Offensive of 1968 was an initiative of the North Vietnam Army to have the civilian population of South Vietnam join them in their offensive and efforts to overthrow the South Vietnam Government, forcing the withdrawal of the United States Armed Forces.
		The Tet Offensive of 1968 was conceived by General Giap, commander of the North Vietnam Army and his staff.
		Tet offensive of 1968 was the first time, during the war, that actual street fighting took place in the major cities.
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	The Tet Offensive 1968
		Not only had Tet shown that the optimism of the previous year had been an illusion but it now seemed that the enemy was far stronger than anybody had thought and that the long efforts to win Vietnamese "hearts and minds" had largely been a disaster.
		When the Tet Offensive began, many US officials believed that the NLF had offered the Americans a golden opportunity by fighting a pitched battle where it could be defeated in open combat.
		The NLF had gone into the Tet Offensive in the hope of giving a death-blow to the Saigon Government and, if it couldn't capture power directly, it could at least gain a coalition leading to ultimate authority.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/vietnam/tet.htm (2479 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Tet Offensive (January 30, 1968 - June 8, 1968) was a series of operational offensives by the Viá»t Cá»ng and the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War.
		The Tet Offensive is considered a military defeat for the Communist forces by some, as neither the Viet Cong nor the North Vietnamese army achieved their tactical goals.
		While the Tet Offensive is frequently seen as an example of the value of media influence and popular opinion in the pursuit of military objectives, James Arnold wrote "At the time, political and military leaders from Johnson and Westmoreland down blamed the Press for losing the war.
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		Tet was a disaster for the Viet Cong.
		He probably thinks of the Tet offensive as a bloodbath for both sides, but one which began the end of the VC, while forgetting that it was also a turning point in the war that began the end of the U.S. involvement, and the end of the Saigon government.
		Tet was a complete failure by the Viet Cong, they were DECIMATED and never achieved a popular uprising, yet the reality based community gave them a victory.
	www.haloscan.com /comments/crooks/100111138 (2437 words)

	Remembering the Tet Offensive
		The Tet Offensive by the Vietnamese forces was intended to inspire a general “urban insurrection” throughout Vietnam.
		Tet was filmed by journalists based in the city and was promptly broadcast on television.
		While Tet is not memorialized, the specter of Tet has influenced the U.S. armed forces’ approach to media relations subsequent to the end of the Vietnam War.
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	THE TET OFFENSIVE -Jan. 31 1968 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Militarily, the Tet Offensive was a disaster for the communists.
		While the offensive was a crushing military defeat for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, the early reporting of a smashing communist victory went largely uncorrected in the media and this led to a great psychological victory for the communists.
		I pointed out that the Tet Offensive of 1968 was a disastrous military defeat for the North Vietnamese and that the VC were almost wiped out by the fighting, and that it took the NVA until 1971 to reestablish a presence using North Vietnamese troops as local guerrillas.
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	Tet offensive: turning point in the Vietnam war
		The Tet offensive is seen as the great turning point: from then on the war, costing £30 billion a year, was widely acknowledged as unwinnable by the Americans.
		On the night of 31st January 1968, 70,000 North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet offensive - it proved to be one of the greatest campaigns in military history.
		Tet was the final nail in the coffin for the administration of Lyndon Johnson.
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	Tet Offensive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong (rebel forces sponsored by North Vietnam) and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam.
		Even though the offensive was a military failure for the North Vietnamese Communists and Vietcong (VC), it was a political and psychological victory for them because it dramatically contradicted optimistic claims by the U.S. government that the war was all but over.
		During the TET Offensive, the 716th Military Police Battalion became involved in the Battle of Saigon: the fiercest battle in which a military police unit has ever been engaged.
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	Tet Offensive in Vietnam, 1968
		Hue was the scene of the longest and heaviest fighting of the Tet offensive (Jan.-Feb., 1968); some 4,000 civilians were killed at the hands of the Communists during their occupation of this former imperial city and most of the city, including the palaces and tombs of the former Annamese kings, was destroyed.
		Tet, or the lunar new year, the Vietnamese most festive holiday, resulted in a declared 36 hour truce and home leave for many of South Vietnam's military.
		The Tet offensive of 1968 demonstrated that despite the element of surprise, American soldiers were able to repel determined and well coordinated attacks.
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	The significance of the Tet Offensive for the Vietnam War. - CheatHouse.com
		Tet Offensive : In 1968, the National Liberation Front and Vietcong launched a surprise attack against American and South Vietnamese forces on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day.
		This surprise attack is known as the Tet Offensive and many people viewed this as a turning point in the Vietnam War.
		I see light at the end of the tunnel.", but after the Tet Offensive, the public became skeptic about the reports from the US military because suddenly, it seemed like they were losing the war.
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	Tet Offensive
		The Tet Offensive was a military campaign and also the turning point of the Vietnam War.
		Even though the United States forces and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) were able to recapture the cities, the Tet Offensive showed to the American public that the war may go on indefinitely.
		The Tet Offensive just made the American public realize that these statements were all lies and that the war was far from over.
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	Tet offensive - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		TET OFFENSIVE [Tet offensive] 1968, a series of crucial battles in the Vietnam War.
		Although the offensive was not militarily successful for the Vietnamese Communists, it was a political and psychological victory for them.
		TET OFFENSIVE 'Like Katrina with gunfire': Diamondhead retirees survived 1968 assault
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-tetoffen.html (262 words)

	Tet Offensive - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Tet Offensive - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Tet Offensive, military campaign of the Vietnam War (1959-1975), in which almost every major city and province in South Vietnam was attacked by the...
		When some of the soldiers of the U.S. 9th Marine Regiment landed in Da Nang in March 1965, their orders were to protect the U.S. air base, but the...
	encarta.msn.com /Tet_Offensive.html (180 words)

	The Tet Offensive — www.greenwood.com
		Description: The Tet Offensive of 1968 was perhaps the key incident in the War for Vietnam.
		The NLF and the Tet Offensive by Robert Brigham
		The Tet Offensive and Middletown: A Study in Contradiction by Anthony O. Edmonds
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/B5481.aspx (284 words)

	Tet Offensive, Vietnam 1968
		During the Tet truce, Task Force (TF) 117 (Riverine Force) was scheduled to deploy into western Dinh Tuong and eastern Kien Phong provinces, where it was expected to interdict intensified enemy resupply efforts.
		COMNAVFORV and his intelligence organization were surprised by the intensity, coordination and timing of the Tet Offensive, as evidenced by Admiral Veth's presence at his residence during the first wave of attacks on Saigon.
		Of the many factors that led to the intelligence community's surprise at the offensive, the misguided belief that enemy forces would not run the risk of attacking the cities and towns of the RVN is paramount.
	www.history.navy.mil /wars/tetintel.htm (3182 words)

	THE SILENT TEARS IN HUE CITY
		In the darkness of the 1968 Tet's Eve, North Vietnamese Communist Army units conducted a surprise attack at Hue City, while the two sides were in a truce that had been agreed upon previously.
		South Vietnamese Army units defending the city were not in good positions to fight as they expected that the enemy would abide by their 4-day cease-fire promise, as they did in the preceding years.
		When a Tet Offensive documentary film by South Vietnamese reporters was shown to the American audience of more than 200 US Army officers in Fort Benning, Ga. in November 1974, almost 90 percent of them hadn't been informed of the facts.
	www.vietquoc.com /0002vq.htm (1152 words)

	VIETNAM: TET OFFENSIVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The largest battle of Tet, and the whole war, was in Hue, where the city was in enemy hands and under fire from 31 January until an assault regained control on 25 February.
		The Tet Counter-Offensive period continued through 1968 with clearing operations as U.S. units were committed in the populated areas to oppose the enemy units that had penetrated and in the uninhabited areas to block the enemy's withdrawal and to prevent reinforcement of crumbling Communist forces.
		In military terms, the Tet Offensive was a disaster for the Communists but political gains nevertheless accrued mostly to their side.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_vietnam_tet.php (960 words)

	Tet Offensive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tet Offensive can be considered a military defeat for the Communist forces, as neither the Viet Cong nor the North Vietnamese army achieved their tactical goals.
		Nevertheless, the Offensive is widely considered a turning point of the war in Vietnam, with the NLF and PAVN winning an enormous psychological and propaganda victory.
		The Tet Offensive is frequently seen as an example of the value of media influence and popular opinion in the pursuit of military objectives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tet_Offensive (3682 words)

	Tet offensive
		The Tet offensive is seen as the great turning point: from then on the war, costing $30 billion a year, was widely acknowledged as un-winnable by the Americans.
		Although not meeting its major objectives the Tet offensive did have a lasting effect on the course of the war.
		Tet was the final nail in the coffin for the administration of Lyndon Johnson.
	1stbattalion3rdmarines.com /operations-history-folder/tet_1968.htm (1644 words)

	Vets With A Mission - History of Vietnam - Tet Offensive
		Tet had traditionally been a time of truce in the long war and both Hanoi and Saigon had made announcements that this year would be no different -- although they disagreed about the duration.
		Westmoreland later claimed to have anticipated Tet but the evidence suggests that he was not prepared for anything approaching the intensity of the attack that came and that he was still concentrating his attentions on the developing battle at Khe Sanh where he thought Giap would make his chief effort.
		The VC was not broken by the Tet Offensive but it was severely crippled by it and, from then on, the North took on the main burden of the war.
	www.vwam.com /vets/tet/tet.html (5473 words)

	TonyRogers.com \| Analysis: A mini-Tet offensive in Iraq?
		Until Tet, a majority of Americans agreed with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson that failure was not an option.
		With the Vietcong wiped out in the Tet offensive, North Vietnamese regulars moved south down the Ho Chi Minh trails through Laos and Cambodia to continue the war.
		Hanoi's Easter offensive in March 1972 was another disaster for the communists.
	www.tonyrogers.com /news/fallujah_vs_tet.htm (1146 words)

	Are we approaching a 'Tet Offensive Moment'? \| Samizdata.net
		Tet was a comprehensive defeat for the Communists, and the VC was smashed as a fighting force.
		Tet was of course a propaganda victory for the Communists, because it came as a shock to America when the NVA attacked the US Embassy in Saigon, when the American people had been told they were winning the war.
		Tet was such a severe setback for them, allied to the destruction of their bases in Cambodia in the so-called invasion of 1970, that they could not invade the South again until Easter 1972, when they lost again.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/008265.html (9581 words)

	Tet? Not Yet, National Review Online: Comparisons Between Vietnam And Iraq Aren't Valid - CBS News
		He mildly agreed with Thomas Friedman’s assertion that the recent uptick in violence in Iraq (during Ramadan, note) could be the "jihadist equivalent of the Tet offensive," and the frenzy began.
		As well, a simple uptick in indiscriminate violence is hardly something on the level of Tet, which was a comprehensive, three-phased plan to foment mass uprisings in South Vietnam as prelude to a conventional invasion.
		The most important difference between Tet and any similar (or dissimilar) situation today is that the insurgents in Iraq know what the North Vietnamese did not know, at least at first — they do not have to actually win a battle to achieve a strategic victory.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/10/20/opinion/main2111369.shtml (1312 words)

	The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Thus, the public was shown scenes of battles in progress, the dead and wounded, and the coffins of the dead being unloaded.
		As the TET offensive continued into February, the anchorman for the CBS evening news, Walter Cronkite, traveled to Vietnam and filed several reports.
		Critics argue that this was not emphasized in media reports so that TET was framed and interpreted as, at minimum, a "psychological defeat." Others assert that there was a disjuncture between the optimism of the administration's PR in late 1967 and the coordinated enemy attacks of January-February 1968.
	faculty.smu.edu /dsimon/Change-Viet2.html (1744 words)

	The Tet Offensive by Steven Hayward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Even though Tet was a disappointing defeat for North Vietnam in strictly military terms, it exposed the bankruptcy of U.S. war policy and aims in Vietnam, and prepared the way for America’s eventual humiliation.
		The Tet offensive was a military failure—for the North Vietnamese.
		Above all, the Tet offensive exposed the fundamental weakness of Johnson’s war policy: there was no clear strategy or timeline for ending the war, a point which antiwar critics in Congress reiterated in the media day after day.
	www.ashbrook.org /publicat/dialogue/hayward-tet.html (6271 words)

	Kuma Releases Tet Offensive: The Embassy - Kotaku
		Tet Offensive: The Embassy gives gamers a chance to play through the events of 1968 inside the U.S. Embassy ground in Saigon.
		The latest "Shootout!: Tet Offensive" chapter captures the essence of the Vietnam war in 1968 at the start of the Lunar New Year Celebrations, transporting players 20 miles northwest of Saigon where an American platoon has been battered and bloodied and is in dire need of back-up after a surprise offensive by Vietnamese forces.
		Eight "Shootout!" players will have the chance to win their choice of two premium prizes: a DVD of the "Tet Offensive" episode from "Shootout!", or a DVD of "The Tet Offensive" episode from The History Channel series, "Declassified." Both titles are available exclusively from the The History Channel library.
	www.kotaku.com /gaming/tet-offensive:-the-embassy/kuma-releases-tet-offensive-the-embassy-224002.php (678 words)

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