Tet Offensive was a major military operation in January of 1968 by the Viet Cong and the People’s Army of Vietnam. It was a surprise attack during the Tet cease fire agreement, that began during the Tet holiday of the Vietnamese New Year. Prior to the surprise attack the LBJ administration was questioning whether the war of attrition was working. General William C. Westmoreland believed that a critical point in the war of attrition had been reached. But this was due to bad information between the command that Gen. Westmoreland ran and the Central Intelligence Agency. Both groups estimated that the Viet Cong numbers were still high. But they had been giving strength numbers to the media that showed the numbers were dwindling. This created a
