Edited sentence: According to Colonel Hammes,Tet is sometimes viewed as one of a series of victories won by the United States however the press "turned these victories into a political defeat.According to this thesis, the inaccurate reporting heavily contributed to the destruction of Americans will to fight" (Hammes  70).Further, the continued U.Instead, according to this view, the Communist actually gained strength because of inaccurate reporting by the U.The argument is that Tet "should have been a victory in itself and a serious strategic setback for the communist.and ARVN  successes against the Viet Cong and NVA should have sealed our (United States)victory rather than seen the erosion of support.and international press