50th anniversary of Tet is here and the media will be out in force - I'm going to hate this because there will be junk and balderdash....often pink tinged and full of ill-disguised contempt for our soldiers ...published by the volume and it will just antagonize us again...because that North Vietnames offensive effort destroyed the VC main force units in III and IV Coups...the southern communist cadres never again played a significant part in the war and what was left was finished off by Phoenix.
Excellent post, Argo. That war eventually came down to NVA vs ARVN . . . and thanks to Congress, we failed to live up to the promises we'd made to support the South when American troops were withdrawn. William Colby, undoubtedly the most experienced high ranking CIA officer in Vietnam (having served as chief of station, later in charge of Phoenix) made the very clear and accurate point that it wasn't a guerrilla in a cone hat and tire tread sandals that broke down the gates to the presidential palace in Saigon. Rather, it was a North Vietnamese tank.
