{"id":84679,"date":"2019-01-30T11:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84679"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:32:29","slug":"tet-offensive-the-victory-that-seemed-like-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84679","title":{"rendered":"Tet Offensive – The victory that seemed like defeat."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first phase of the assault began on January 30 and 31, when NLF forces simultaneously attacked a number of targets, mostly populated areas and places with heavy U.S. troop presence. The strikes on the major cities of\u00a0Hu<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Saigon<\/span> had a strong psychological impact, as they showed that the NLF troops were not as weak as the\u00a0Johnson<\/span>\u00a0Administration had previously claimed. The NLF even managed to breach the outer walls of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. Although the first phase of the offensive became the most famous, a second phase also launched simultaneous assaults on smaller cities and towns on May 4 and stretched into June. A third phase began in August and lasted six weeks. In the months that followed, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces retook the towns that the NLF had secured over the course of the offensive, but they incurred heavy military and civilian casualties in the process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So much has been written about this event I can’t imagine future generations being able to decern what actually did happen.\u00a0 I do not know of a military victory so completely one-sided\u00a0that ended up giving so much support and comfort to the enemy.<\/p>\n