[AU72]

Will Burns call the TET Offensive a disaster for the the US and ARVN or what it really was, the suicidal destruction of the Vietcong.

[eastforker]

No, not at all, he states how the North was defeated and their heavy losses. And yes SD, it is well worth the time to watch it.

[ThanhPhero]

I have friends now who were soldiers of Hà Nội. I wonder how the other side is presented in this series. The old soldiers I know say the wrong side won, and if the Americans had invaded and conquered the North the country would be as rich as South Korea now. One says the revelation came to him when they went into Sài Gòn and saw how modern it was compared to the cities in the north. One was a soldier in the jungle for years before it finally dawned on him that they were not fighting the Chinese.

Hà Nội recruiters went into the mountain and rural villages in which people knew nothing of the world except that China was the eternal enemy. The recruiters (more like press gangs) just said you have to go to fight the invaders.

[kearnyirish2]

The Tet Offensive was a military disaster for the VC; it was a political disaster for the US. It exposed the lie that we were “winning”; while we cleaned up well during Tet, the US public had been told we were almost done - and obviously we weren’t.

[DownInFlames]

Ho and his 1st Sec were firmly and wrongly convinced that the ARVN and population of SV would rise up.