Why the US Lost the Tet Offensive Despite Beating the NVA (Vietnam War Documentary)
Why the US Lost the Tet Offensive Despite Beating the NVA (Vietnam War Documentary)
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After years of boots on the ground and bloody combat in Vietnam, US officials are publicly confident. The strategy of eliminating the Viet Cong is working. The North Vietnamese communist forces are…
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The US positively won the TET Offensive but the popular opinion turned against the US smartly manipulated by the communist dictatorship. We have to acknowledge how gullible the hippies were turning tools of the dictatorship abandoning democracy and freedom…
Left out or unknown by you,John Kerry went to the Paris Peace Negotiations spoke with the VC chief negotiator and beg her to allow time for the Antiwar protest to take greator effect within America. This she did.
The US was not only fighting North Vietnam but South Vietnam, the entire country. And the more south Vietnam villages US bombed and civilians killed, the more viet Cong joined the fight. US commanders fought with World War II tactics that did not play well in South Vietnam since VC could avoid large scale battles and big body counts. They instead relied on the same guerrilla tactics that had defeated the armies of Genghis Khan through the French. No Nation stood a chance against them in a ground war because it's hard to beat an enemy that lives under the ground
the US didnt lose militarily, we lost politically.
The Tet offensive was a total failure for Hanoi.
The EVN couldn’t take Khe San.
The Vietcong ceased to exist.
It was the left wing media (as usual) who turned a victory into a defeat.
JA Ja Ami tolle Leistung ihr seid die besten….. wie immer ….
Total war or nothing……….political rules lose lives…and wars
Yawn………………………… Just remember the last war America won ended in Aug 1945.
Lesson one: Never ever wage any war on the territory of somebody else.
My Father came back from Tet all shot up. He spent almost 6 months in the hospital.
USA is repeating same mistake with Ukraine, the USA will profit more with negotiating with Russia.
American objectives were to pacify Vietnam , therefore American lost on all fronts.
you forgot the My Lai massacre
No seriously thank for your service and sacrifice 🙏
Oh poo round eye! You want party? No happy ending for you!
The Tet Offensive spelt the end of the Viet Cong.
Because the American military were and always will be useless.
Most of them are dilettantes in warfare.
It's like this ….
The US and South Vietnamese won a stunning victory in destroying the Viet Cong during the Tet Offensive. The Viet Cong were never a factor in the war after Tet.
Then – Walter Cronkite – pronounced it a defeat.
The Americans knew it was a victory.
The Communists knew it was a defeat.
Walter Cronkite made it a Communist Victory – when it wasn't.
And yes, Walter – you DID lose the Vietnam War.
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I was at Hue for the Tet offensive , 2 /5. From where I was we didn’t lose!
The french lost the war earlier
In a remote valley of dienbienphu
The americans wouldnt assist
With their aircraft even lbj
Was against intervention
Ten years later he had a change of policy!
We didnt lose Tet of'68. In Tet of '72, which was called the Easter offensive, the NVA entered S Vietnam in the absence of US forces. The US then sent forces to Vietnam to push the NVA back across the DMZ. We did that in Operation Lam Son II. We then signed a peace treaty in Jan 1973. It was 1975 before the NVA entered SVN. With no USA forces the NVA then defeated SVN. I was part of operation Lam Son II. After a CH-53 was shot with a Russian SAM missile 12 Marines on 4 helos, 2 Cobras and 2 Hueys, drove the NVA away from the crash site and a mile back toward the NVA the same day, 11 Jul 1972.
For me the US did not lost in the Tet Offensive.
How important was the draft ?
Would the entire operation have been impossible without it ?
I believe that had there been no draft, there'd have been no real opposition to the war.
The war was a waste
So was the Korean war there is no need to keep troops everywhere to babysit grown people overseas they can take care of them selves
America is a loser in Vietnam. If American soldiers fought 1 on 1 with VC soldiers, it is certain that American soldiers' casualties would increase at least 20 times. Remember that in the Vietnam War, the US had to mobilize the total force of coalition soldiers +SVA soldiers, this number was many times greater than that of VC soldiers, accept defeat, then you can learn a valuable lesson for yourself: We should not rely on strength to wage war and impose force to control the thoughts and independent will of other nations.
Westmoreland was a old style warrior in a new style WAR… Didn't see a new warfare… For that U S A, Lost…. blaming the BLAME.