The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War
In this account of one of the worst intelligence failures in Americanhistory, James J. Wirtz explains why U.S. forces were surprised by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in 1968. Wirtz reconstructs the turning point of the Vietnam War in unprecedented detail. Drawing upon Vietcong and recently decl...
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Zusammenfassung: | In this account of one of the worst intelligence failures in Americanhistory, James J. Wirtz explains why U.S. forces were surprised by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in 1968. Wirtz reconstructs the turning point of the Vietnam War in unprecedented detail. Drawing upon Vietcong and recently declassified U.S. sources, he is able to trace the strategy and unfolding of the Tet campaign as well as the U.S. response |
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title_auth | The Tet Offensive Intelligence Failure in War |
title_exact_search | The Tet Offensive Intelligence Failure in War |
title_full | The Tet Offensive Intelligence Failure in War James J. Wirtz |
title_fullStr | The Tet Offensive Intelligence Failure in War James J. Wirtz |
title_full_unstemmed | The Tet Offensive Intelligence Failure in War James J. Wirtz |
title_short | The Tet Offensive |
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