Posted by
Takeadair on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:45:57 PM
1. The Tet Offense of 1968 was crushed so severely by the US/SVN forces that the VC were no longer a threat and would not be for the rest of the war.
2. Three NVA divisions of hard-core regulars were annihilated by Marines and Army forces in Hue City and in the Central Highlands.
3. Chronkite called that a loss.
4. The NVA were unable to mount another serious offense until the Easter Offensive in 1972. Even WITHOUT massive US troop support, the SNV forces and US airstrikes crushed the NVA yet again. They would not be able to mount another offensive until 1975.
5. In 1975, the SVN was still able to holdback the NVA and gain ground in several areas but the lack of support from the US, both moral and financial, caused the loss of will.
6. General Giap's memoirs bear out the fact that the NVA were THROUGH in 1968 but they gained courage from the anti-war idiots back in the states and THAT kept them in the fight. (Try reading it.)