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...brought the fighting to Saigon, turning the city into a nightmare of fear, destruction and random death. The war, which used to be something remote that took place in rice fields and jungles, has come to stay in the capital ever since the first shock of the massive Communist Tet offensive last February. And life is now far grimmer for Saigon's 2,500,000 residents than it was at the worst of Tet...
Colonel Xu's infantry tactics reflect the lessons he learned during the Tet offensive when he threw whole battalions into the city only to see them badly battered. Now he slips small, squad-size units-ten infantrymen and two or three women who handle the cooking-past South Vietnamese defense perimeters and the cordons formed by the U.S. 9th and 25th Divisions. Once inside the city, the team deploys in three sections-one to fight, a second to dig a maze of underground tunnels for quick movement and escape, a third to rest. On a rotation basis, the system...
...country. Vo Nguyen Giap, Westmoreland's opponent in Hanoi, was able to match every American move, pouring well-armed North Vietnamese troopers into the caldron below the Demilitarized Zone until they now account for better than 70% of the Communists' hard core troops. While South Vietnamese celebrated Tet, the lunar new year, Giap unleashed his general offensive...
...Directions. To Westmoreland, the Tet attacks on 40 cities were Giap's desperate gamble to draw allied troops away from the beleaguered U.S. Marine fortress at Khe Sanh. He still believes the onslaughts on Saigon are in the same pattern of desperation, even though Khe Sanh is now a largely forgotten sector. In a war that has defied every yardstick of progress, Westmoreland's measurements have diminished his estimates of his foe's capacities to the point of overoptimism...
Johnson's draft decision in late January along with a new sense of futility with the war brought on by the Tet Offensive together seemed to bring a new sense of hopelessness to Harvard. There was another Dow demonstration and the Draft Union began to grow...