Tet Offensive

The victims of the Tết Offensive “will never forget how the communists shattered the Tết Truce with such devastation and violence.” The Vietnam War was raging, a battle between the North Vietnamese with the Việt Cộng against the South Vietnamese and their allies, the U.S. 1954 was the end of the First Indochina War and 1955 marked the beginning of the Vietnam War. The Tết Offensive was a series of synchronized, surprise attacks by the North Vietnamese and Việt Cộng on the people of South Vietnam…

within the war, newscast dramatically modified the war once the Tet Offensive happened. The anti-war movement gained increasing media attention. Coverage of the war and its ensuing impact on public opinion has been debated several years by many intelligent students and journalist. Journalists primarily in Saigon daily gave reportable facts regarding battles, casualties, and also the morale of the troops. Television and the Tet offensive brought an unreal experience to the folks at home by…

called the enemy’s offensive America’s “worst intelligence failure of the war.” U.S. intelligence analysts failed to understand their adversary because they focused on only two aspects of their opponent’s strategy: the Vietnamese application of people’s war, which relied heavily on the ideas articulated by Lin Piao and Mao Tse-tung; and the military aspects-especially military operations involving conventional units-of the communist effort to unite Vietnam. The offensive failed to achieve…

intelligence intercepted prior to the offensive; intelligence which, if heeded, would have placed US and South Vietnamese forces in the exact positions that would have completely thwarted the attack. The images sent home to the United States failed to tell the whole story but aborted the US war effort nonetheless. The Battle of Saigon is a perfect microcosm of the entire Tet Offensive: what happened in the capitol happened countrywide. Aftermath of the Tet Offensive In the two months that saw…

skyrocketed after the Tet Offensive. The damaging media coverage made it even harder to hold public opinion behind the war effort. One man remembered that Americans were “scared to death of the images” that seemed to come in a constant bombardment from overseas. Some even held the belief that the press reports were losing the war, because “all they do is report the bad news.” There was no doubt that Americans were frightened of what they saw in the news, as the media interpreted the Tet…

greatly impacted the United States, and the Tet Offensive being a massive military defeat of the Viet Cong. The battles of Vietnam were mainly located in Vietnam or Southeast Asia. A few of these battles were located somewhere in the Easternmost part of Asia. During the Vietnam War, some of the battles or fightings…

Vietnam War On November 1, 1995 the North Vietnamese attacked South Vietnam to mark the beginning of the Vietnam War (Tet Offensive). Spanning nineteen years, the Vietnam War was a conflict fought between six different countries and allies over the differing opinions concerning communism. Ho Chi Minh was the leader for the North and believed in a communist government and received help from the Soviet Union and China (Biography of Ho Chi Minh). On the other hand, leader of Southern Vietnam,…

Later, she finds out about the Tet Offensive, now, more upset than ever about this war. More lives were taken and she is praying every night that the troops would come home soon and more lives will not be taken…

when Saigon was attacked by well organized and armed Vietcong and North Vietnamese army. On 30 January 1968, approximately half of the South Vietnamese army’s 350,000 Soldiers were on leave and celebrating the traditional seven day cease fire and “Tet”. In addition to the Vietnamese forces, a large majority of the 400,000 plus foreign Soldiers were relaxing and enjoying the holiday. As we will begin to see, many historians have said that this battle was the turning point of the US citizen’s…

The following two book reviews reference one book, but both offer different perspectives on the Tet Offensive. The first reviewer, Wise, reviews Big Story: How the American Press and Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 1968 in Vietnam and Washington by Peter Braestrup. Braestrup (1977) argues that “The Tet Offensive was so misleading that an Allied victory was converted to a defeat.” Wise supports Braestrup’s arguments throughout her review of…