Fifty years ago today, North Vietnamese military forces launched an attack that would become known as the Tet Offensive.
MOAA interviewed Col. Greg Daddis, USA (Ret), former chief of the American History Division at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., about the value of studying the Tet Offensive. See more from that interview on MOAA's YouTube channel. Learn more about Daddis' role in Ken Burns' The Vietnam War in the February issue of Military Officer magazine.
The value of studying the Tet Offensive, 50 years later:
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Why the Tet Offensive was a turning point in the Vietnam War:
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Some had a visceral reaction to the Vietnam War. Why?
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How a lack of coordination led to favorable results:
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