um...The Dien Bien Phu battle occurred in 1954
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This is the only exception I take to this great posting. General Giap's memoir doesn't even claim losing the fight in the field but winning the fight with U.S. public opinion was his stategy in 1968.
Here's how Arnaud de Borchgrave (no Neo-con) characterizes it in and article posted here on FR few days ago:
"With the Vietcong wiped out in the Tet offensive.... Even Giap admitted in his memoirs that news media reporting of the war and the anti-war demonstrations that ensued in America surprised him. Instead of negotiating what he called a conditional surrender, Giap said they would now go the limit because America's resolve was weakening and the possibility of complete victory was within Hanoi's grasp. "
Analysis: A mini-Tet offensive in Iraq? (How the Left aided the enemy in Vietnam)
But he did learn the lesson and hung in waiting for the Left in America to steal for Communism the victory Giap and his armies couldn't achieve on the ground in Vietnam.
Great!
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LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY (killing troops, aiding+abetting enemy, imperiling all) PING