Tet Offensive

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By Cadet Medina
Tet Offensive
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• The T?t Offensive (January 30, 1968 - June 8,
  1969) was a series of operational offensives
  during the Vietnam War, coordinated between
  battalion strength elements of the National
  Liberation Front's People's Liberation Armed
  Forces (PLAF or Viet Cong) and divisional
  strength elements of the North Vietnam's People's
  Army of Vietnam (PAVN), against South Vietnam's
  Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), and
  United States military and other ARVN-allied
  forces

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USMC Captain Franklin P. Eller during the Tet
Offensive
Date January 30, 1968- June 8, 1969 Location
North Vietnam and South Vietnam Result Decisive
ARVN and US military victory, equally decisive
Communists strategic and psychological victory.
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• The operations are called the T?t Offensive as
  they were timed to begin on the night of January
  3031, 1968, T?t Nguyên Ðán (the lunar new year
  day)

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• The T?t Offensive can be considered a crushing
  military defeat for the Communist forces, as
  neither the Viet Cong nor the North Vietnamese
  army achieved any of their tactical goals.
• Furthermore, the operational cost of the
  offensive was dangerously high, with the Viet
  Cong essentially crippled by the huge losses
  inflicted by American and South Vietnamese
  forces.

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• The Offensive is widely considered a turning
  point of the war in Vietnam, with the NLF and
  PAVN winning an enormous psychological and
  propaganda victory. Although US public opinion
  polls continued to show a majority supporting
  involvement in the war, this support continued to
  deteriorate and the nation became increasingly
  polarized over the war