"TET: Who Won?" Topic

"Shortly before 3 a.m. on January 31, 1968, a squad of Vietcong guerrillas blasted a hole in the outer wall of the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon, gunned down two American military policemen who tried to stop them, and laid siege to the lightly defended headquarters building where the flag of the United States was officially planted in South Vietnam.

As part of a nationwide wave of surprise attacks by the Communists during the Lunar New Year—the Tet holiday—the resulting six-hour battle was militarily inconsequential. In fact, in strictly military terms, the two-month struggle known as the Tet Offensive was a disaster for the attackers. It ended with the expulsion of the North Vietnamese Army and the southern-based insurgent troops, known in the West as Vietcong, from each place they invaded…"
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I will repeat my plea to everyone NOT to keep doing this over and over again.

Must agree, unless it adds some new insight, which this article certainly does not.

I personally enjoy historical articles on this Board, although accepting that it is intended for wargamers. After all,if one is to recreate an event accurately, it pays to study its history.

But this just repeats so many articles telling us that the Tet offensive was a military defeat, but a psychological victory, for the NLF/NVA….that really does not need repeating as Skarper says

I agree … I can just go back and repost what I said on previous threads here about this topic.

Jeez, Louise, again? I agree with the above three posts: there is but one conclusion to make about Tet & it's been made forcefully & severally and doesn't need dubious revisionism.

Thank you, Skarper!