Title
The Importance of the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
"Fifty years on, what should we make of Tet? What perspective can we can gain from studying one of the most consequential moments of the entire American war in Vietnam? While most critics, especially military officers, tended to paint the Tet offensive as a military victory turned political defeat, it seems more useful to consider this chapter of the war as a strategic tutorial on flawed assumptions among American and North Vietnamese leaders and commanders. At its core, the 1968 Tet offensive, from all sides, remains a profound case study on misplaced expectations about how war unfolds and what it promises."
Recommended Citation
Daddis, Gregory A., “The Importance of the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive,” War on the Rocks (January 2018), https://warontherocks.com/2018/01/importance-vietnam-wars-tet-offensive.
Copyright
War on the Rocks
Comments
This article was originally published in War on the Rocks in January 2018.