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...have enough materiel stockpiled to sus tain major fighting for at least twelve months, Western intelligence experts do not expect them to launch a serious offensive in the near future. Nonetheless, Western analysts have a notably poor record deciphering Communist intentions; they failed to predict the massive offensives of Tet 1968 and Easter 1972. The frequency of the cease-fire viola tions convinces South Vietnamese lead ers that Hanoi has not abandoned its aim to take over the entire South...
...drove through Cholon and saw block after block of devastated buildings. Cholon and Gia Dinh had been the operations bases for the NLF battalions attacking Saigon during the 1968 Tet offensive. U.S. fire had leveled both districts in the counter-attacks. We had burned out villages and shot women and children and them built orphanages for the orphans we had made. Only whorehouses sprang up as fast as orphanages during...
...Cambodia and Thailand with the American Friends Service Committee, meeting with representatives of the NLF and North Vietnam. The three week study of Indochina's political structure and the effects of the war was extended unexpectedly when Mendelsohn's party was trapped in Saigon for ten days by the Tet offensive. "We saw the war a lot closer than we had planned," Mendelsohn recalls now. Upon his return, Mendelsohn embarked on his long, sometimes lonely campaign of putting antiwar resolutions before the Harvard faculty. Last December, during the peak of the carpet-bombing in Indochina, Mendelsohn, a vice president...
...what the insurgents-inside and outside Phnom-Penh-will do next. The initiative is all theirs, military observers agree, and they have a range of options: they could launch a frontal attack on the capital, or cause a slow strangulation by cutting off its supplies, or even stage a Tet-like uprising from within. Although Lon Nol has 75,000 troops in and around Phnom-Penh (with insurgent forces estimated at 20,000), fewer than 12,000 are regarded as battle effective. Thousands of others perform headquarters tasks or serve as bodyguards for Lon Nol and other military and political...
Both the 1968 Tet Offensive and the 1972 North Vietnamese onslaught failed to topple the Thieu regime. Outside the cities, Thieu had no power, but within them his police held sway. His jails and tiger cages continued to fill with political prisoners, many of whom were charged only with being "neutralists." A stalemate reigned. Thieu could never eliminate the NLF and the North Vietnamese from the countryside. They had failed to eject him from the cities...