For Le Duan, the Hanoi Politburo’s first secretary, a major battlefield success in 1968 promised a great deal. Decisive victory would break a stalemated war in South Vietnam. It would force the ...
January 1968 had not started in an apocalyptic fashion. The triumphal sense that America was a force for good and capable of accomplishing almost anything in the era following victory in World War II ...
A new dragon statue guards the Citadel in Hue, seized by northern forces during the 1968 Tet Offensive but then recaptured in some of the fiercest combat of the Vietnam War. Binh Dang A few years ago, ...
On January 30, 1968, the Viet Cong launched a coordinated assault with the North Vietnamese Army that changed the course of the Vietnam War. Although the Tet Offensive was a battlefield failure for ...