The myths of Tet
Subtitle: the most misunderstood event of the Vietnam War
By: Edwin E. Moïse
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780700625024
Subjects: Public opinion; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Tet Offensive, 1968; Military intelligence
Description: "Most of those who study and write about the Vietnam War now agree that the Tet Offensive was militarily a defeat for the Communist forces, since those forces failed to take the cities but suffered very heavy casualties in the attempt. Yet it was a victory for them politically, because it undermined support for the war in the United States. So stated, the conventional wisdom is well founded. Edwin Moise takes the controversies surrounding Tet head on, exposing the errors and misrepresentations in some of the Tet accounts and demonstrating that much of the conventional wisdom is astonishingly inaccurate."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the problem; title: Escalating the Vietnam War, 1964-1967; title: The order of battle; title: The special national intelligence estimate; title: The optimism campaign; title: Preparing for the offensive; title: The Tet Offensive, 1968; title: The myths of Tet; title: The mythical myth : supposed media portrayals of Tet; title: The war continues; title: Aftermath, lessons, and questions.