Lessons Learned: The Tet Offensive 

I saw this on TV when I was a kid it's something I'll never forget

This presenter does not blink, not even once...

I saw this execution in Netflix. I didnt expected that

wow a video I actually see comments from when the video was published

My history teacher showed us the execution in a power point lmao

the biggest mistake was the us not capitalizing from the near destruction of the NVA after tet

Well, it seems that the Vietnamese commander Giap is the first general in history who managed to win a war by suffering a complete military disaster! As the Americans were so frightened by his fancy New Year offensive that they lost heart and abandoned the war, instead of sending in some decent reinforcements and win it; so the nature of the enemy does matter: For had Giap tried this folly against a foe like the Romans, Mongols or the Chinese, he would have lost the war by it.

I am really amazed that Hanoi could not see that the General Uprising was not supported in South Vietnam. This really was the crux of the situation. The NVA/VC had to violate the principle of concentration of force in order in instigate the rising up of the people against the US and the gov in Saigon. In this way they would achieve a 'decisive victory' and unite the country. It worked before against the French, and was ingrained in the communist party doctrine.

His question: "Is it possible to lose the battles and win a war" is silly for any American. Vietnam and the US both gained their independence from colonial powers in exactly this way. 200 years later, talking heads simply can't understand their own history enough to not repeat this question. One of the important untold stories of Vietnam starts in 1954. This was the during the second American buildup in Nam, supporting the French. The first was when we supported Ho Chi Minh in 1945. In any case in 54 The Geneva Conference called for country wide elections. President Eisenhower said: "I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held at the time of the fighting, possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the communist Ho Chi Minh". Which was nice because there had been very cordial arms supplies and training to Ho's Viet Minh and lots of admiration for his cause in the American OSS (pre CIA). Ho's OSS supporters were eager for the election, but Ike had the cold war bug really bad. He didn't see Ho for what he was, but as a Soviet puppet. Meanwhile OSS morphed into CIA and Ike sought to and did help the French scotch the elections in the second US arms buildup, training and arming the French against Ho. The irony is: Three million lives and 30 years later after the third and biggest US arms buildup ("the Vietnam War" part 3) to destroy Ho, Ho's party came to power and created the first independent Nam in 100 years. The US has had a stable, peaceful, and profitable trading partner since then. Just another example of how US bosses let their own ideology and disinformation go to their heads and had another war. By the Tet offensive 68, the US people were turning solidly against fighting against an independent Vietnam. These talking heads don't cove that.

Good job police captain. This is how you deal with commies. Shoot them right thru their head immediately.

@Andrew Bellavie: While the French defeat was an self-inflicted one, especially after the Vietnamese border offensive before; and had the Vietnamese recalled their troops in due time they would have made a pretty amazing feat; but they had no chance for victory: As they had some 80.000 troops against 600.000 Americans and several hundred thousand local auxiliaries; so no victory was possible, unless they may have sparked indeed a general uprising.

Where did you source the information for the 1967 summer survey? So I can reference it?

Is that u john wayne is it me

For this reason, it is doubtful that Giap would try this tactic against any of the peoples that you have listed. Also, I apologize for the ridiculous time span between comments.

The Vietcong never got to saigon. The photos of those exicutions we're in a town about 11 miles east of saigon. The Americans had only about 60 advisors at location that had to stop a 100 vehicle armored division because the south vietmanies were too afraid to fight because the North vietmanies commander threatened the lives of their families if they didn't lay their arms down. Then after the armored division was defeated the North vietmanies commander was trapped in the small town just outside of saigon for a month humiliated he resorted to public exicutions in newspaper. Then the U.S. reinserted it was we were soldiers X's 3. I believe the tet offensive I just spoke of was called operation khopesh(?) Or caininite sword and the we were soldiers X'3 was operation hurricane. The stats were a frame job to tie off the damages on anyone in country at the time still operational. During the time period the US had people in Iran getting base jumped and other things going on at bases all over the world that no one knows about like in North Africa and lebinon. Like from the early parts of Vietnam the Democrats stopped the pay of all enlisted men in the US armed forces. That is definitely were those casualty numbers came from. Guys were fighting for free for years. But that was early in the conflict and lasted for most the time. And why Americans probably spit on gi's coming home, they since the time of no pay wanted 12 years so a short timer with only four was beaten so bad for 3 days he stopped asking. So the exicuted guy in the news paper revenge seamed like ample reason to stay and get plenty. Listen to "thunder kiss 65 " again. Look at the exicution photos and listen to " fields of gold". Das wussup. Each US GI had about $3000 dollars on him and the aircraft be carrier's were going to leave them plus 400 more men as well as a attillery division of ours laggen ass if the tet offensive failed. So I guess Nixton resigned office and refused to lie about it. The "I will not bow" we were soldiers video on RU-vid, paints the right picture.

Thank you. You explained this so nicely, and spoke just perfectly. Not too fast, not too monotonous... I switch off easily, but didn't here.

2:15 CONTEXT MATTERS PEWDIEPIE LMAO

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He sounds exactly like Steve jobs

Tet

apparently blinking is out of fashion

@Andrew Bellavie: Though they be nationalists the Vietnamese were still Marxists too and Marxists have always delusions about oppressed workers and classes and these delusions can be devastating; the Russians had thought that they would be welcomed as liberators in Finland, but to the Fins the Russians are the same what the English are to the Scots and so the Fins fought with the spleen of all the under fiends; and Vietnam failed to order its troops to retreat in due time.

This execution is a War Crime. In Vietnam, the USA committed multiple War Crimes and supported & encouraged the War Crimes committed by the South Vietnamese Military

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