To: kearnyirish2
Attacks had leveled off and intelligence noted buildup of supplies. Boots on the ground knew something was up. I suppose the news media led the Americans to believe attack was impossible. I was in Viet Nam so I was not getting the news media propaganda. TET drained the supplies and troops. It took till 1972 to resupply the commies so they could attack again.
48 posted on
01/10/2022 6:27:35 PM PST by
mountainlion
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To: mountainlion
The news media relayed the military line that we were winning, and the enemy was on the ropes; the Tet Offensive shouldn’t have been possible. The enemy from Tet (the VC) never really recovered; in 1972 and 1975 it was the North Vietnamese Army, not South Vietnamese communists, who fought against the ARVN. The VC were reduced to support roles.
50 posted on
01/10/2022 6:36:40 PM PST by
kearnyirish2
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To: mountainlion
The press was staying in Saigon with plenty of booze and hookers. The vast majority of the press simply rewrote Army press releases and sent them on. After Tet they realized that the Army was leading them on and they turned on the Army.
No one is innocent in the Vietnam debacle, except those of us who put our boots on the ground.
60 posted on
01/11/2022 8:11:15 AM PST by
Seruzawa
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