The myths of Tet: the most misunderstood event of the Vietnam War
"Most of those who study and write about the Vietnam War now agree that the Tet Offensive was militarily a defeat for the Communist forces, since those forces failed to take the cities but suffered very heavy casualties in the attempt. Yet it was a victory for them politically, because it under...
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Lawrence, KS
University Press of Kansas
[2017]
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Most of those who study and write about the Vietnam War now agree that the Tet Offensive was militarily a defeat for the Communist forces, since those forces failed to take the cities but suffered very heavy casualties in the attempt. Yet it was a victory for them politically, because it undermined support for the war in the United States. So stated, the conventional wisdom is well founded. Edwin Moise takes the controversies surrounding Tet head on, exposing the errors and misrepresentations in some of the Tet accounts and demonstrating that much of the conventional wisdom is astonishingly inaccurate."...Provided by publisher |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 276 Seiten Karte, Diagramm |
| ISBN: | 9780700625024 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Abbreviations Used in the Text ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Problem i
i. Escalating the Vietnam War, 1964—1967 9
2. The Order of Battle 19
3. The Special National Intelligence Estimate 58
4. The Optimism Campaign 94
5. Preparing for the Offensive 109
6. The Tet Offensive, 1968 134
7. The Myths of Tet 156
The Mythical Myth: Supposed Media Portrayals of Tet
9. The War Continues 190
10. Aftermath, Lessons, and Questions 207
Notes 213
Bibliography 257
Index 269
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