Monday marks the 55th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, which deserves to remembered not only as perhaps the most pivotal battle of the Vietnam War but also for its profound, lasting leadership ...
Daniel Henninger is right (“Can Israel Win the Message War?” Wonder Land, Oct. 26). In the TV age, the shifting tides of public opinion are as important in war as firepower and force strength. Hamas ...
Her warning of a big buildup of enemy troops poised to attack South Vietnam in 1968 was ignored, a major U.S. Army intelligence failure during the war. By Richard Sandomir Doris Allen, an Army ...
When Americans wince upon hearing presidents make proclamations about foreign policy, the legacy of the 1968 Tet Offensive looms large. On January 30, at the start of the sacred Vietnamese holiday of ...
On January 30, 1968 — the eve of Vietnam’s Tet lunar new year holiday — communist soldiers from the north and Viet Cong rebels launched a shock offensive on more than 100 cities and outposts ...
It was supposed to be a holiday ceasefire. Instead, it became one of the most coordinated and devastating surprise attacks in modern warfare. In January 1968, the Tet Offensive turned the Vietnam War ...
In the first shock and confusion that followed the Communists’ country wide Tet offensive six weeks ago, it was difficult, dangerous and, in remote areas, impossible to assess accurately the damage ...
More than five decades later, the horrific memories from the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive come rushing back to Bob Selby of Oyster Bay as if they were yesterday. The brazen 11 p.m. attack on his fire ...
Robbins, a senior editorial writer for foreign affairs at The Washington Times, invokes Osama bin Ladin to argue that the guerilla warfare tactics of American enemies has historically lead to the U.S.