In a column in today's Ottawa Citizen, journalist David Warren recalls how forty years ago Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese regulars violated a negotiated truce to launch what became known, after the Vietnamese lunar new year, as the "Tet Offensive," a total military defeat from which they nonetheless salvaged a propaganda victory.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Worth remembering
Or, if you're young enough, worth learning for the first time. J. Peter Pham at The Tank has Remembering the Real Tet Offensive
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