Tet Offensive

I'm glad to see a new book on the Tet offensive of 1968, especially one in which we win. See James S. Robbins, This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive. In fact we won the battle, but everybody listened to Walter Cronkite. See Gary Larson's review.

Truong Nhu Tang, VC war minister, called Tet a "staggering loss." It was a "major irony," he wrote, that such a defeat "was transformed by our propaganda into a brilliant victory."

On Cronkite see here.