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...March of 1968, Lyndon Johnson finally came to a momentous shift in Viet Nam policy: the decision to level off U.S. troop strength, to stop bombing the North, to pursue negotiating possibilities more actively. In short, the beginning of deescalation. But it had taken the enemy's Tet offensive of January and February, Senator Eugene McCarthy's stunning showing in the New Hampshire primary in March, and the entrance of Robert Kennedy into the presidential campaign to bring about this policy shift...
...months preceding the study, the military state of affairs in Indo-china had been the subject of a raging controversy inside the various departments. The outgoing Presidential advisors and the upper crust of Washington's foreign service were claiming that the NLF had grown significantly weaker since the Tet offensive the previous February, that the Communist military campaign would fold in a matter of months. But the lower echelon-often closer to the truth than were their superiors-said rightly that the guerrillas were merely regrouping forces and growing stronger all the time-that, in effect, the entire American military...
...easily Ky's most sulfurous performance since 1968, when the U.S., in the shaky days after Tet, began pressuring the cocky pilot-politician to maintain at least a semblance of harmony with Thieu. But plainly Ky considers himself grounded no longer. In recent weeks, he has opened up on corruption ("beyond control"), on the Laotian operation ("our Dienbienphu"), on Vietnamization (Saigon's U.S.-supplied warplanes are suitable only "for women"). Richard Nixon's withdrawal program? Only last fall, Ky had been scoffing that a fixed pullout date "doesn't make any sense," but last week...
...General Creighton Abrams has said that he does not think that the North Vietnamese can now mount a major offensive in 1971, and possibly not until the spring of 1972. That, unfortunately, is the kind of expectation the Communists have explosively upset in the past, notably during Tet 1968. Even if Lam Son has slowed the Communist supply effort, it has done so only temporarily. If South Vietnamese forces do stay in Laos until mid-April, the Communists will still have several weeks to recoup before the monsoon completely closes the trail. To win this temporary advantage, the allies have...
Already the Lam Son 719 bloodshed has reached a scale that Major General Frederick Weyand, the deputy U.S. commander in Saigon, describes as "worse than Tet." Even so, until last week the Laotian venture in some respects resembled what one Washington official describes as "an Alphonse-Gaston show. The South Vietnamese fought hard, but they also sat back and waited to see what the North Vietnamese would do. The North Vietnamese attacked outposts, but their main forces sat back and waited to see what the South Vietnamese would...