Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
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11 Facts About Tet Offensive
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Tet Offensive was a military defeat for North Vietnam, as neither uprisings nor ARVN unit defections occurred in South Vietnam.
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Tet Offensive has been forced to change his strategy from trying to control the people on the coast to try to survive in the mountains.
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In official Vietnamese literature, the decision to launch the Tet offensive was usually presented as the result of a perceived US failure to win the war quickly, the failure of the American bombing campaign against North Vietnam, and the anti-war sentiment that pervaded the population of the US The decision to launch the general offensive was much more complicated.
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Tet Offensive combined guerrilla operations into what was basically a conventional military offensive and shifted the burden of sparking the popular uprising to the VC.
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In I Corps, the Tet Offensive Truce had been cancelled in apprehension of a communist assault that never happened.
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PRG Justice Minister Truong Nhu Tang said that the Tet offensive had wiped out half of the VC's strength, while the official Vietnamese war history notes that by 1969, very little communist-held territory existed in South Vietnam.
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Tet Offensive had single-handedly shifted the nation's war strategy and restored himself to prominence as the Party's ideological conscience.
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Tet Offensive believed that the troop increase would lead only to a more violent stalemate and sought out others in the administration to assist him in convincing the President to reverse the escalation, to cap force levels at 550,000 men, to seek negotiations with Hanoi, and turn responsibility for the fighting over to the South Vietnamese.
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Great deal has been said by historians concerning how the news media made Tet Offensive the "turning point" in the public's perception of the war.
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Tet Offensive then stunned the nation by declining to run for a second term in office.
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