Just one minor nit-to-pick. As a Vietnam veteran from the post-Tet offensive period, I believe that we DID defeat the Viet Cong, but lost to the North Vietnamese regular army with the full backing of China. Here is what really happened in 1968. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/tet#
Not the shift with political positions and public opinion. It is claimed that Johnson said, "We have lost Walter Cronkite. We have lost the war."
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I am an SOB: Son of a Bos’n — Sailor, Preacher, Advocate, Computer Geek.
You Americans lost the battle of hearts and minds. Not in Vietnam but in the US. General Võ Nguyên Giáp the commander of the Vietnamese PLA and Viet Cong understood it very well. Westmoreland and the other US commanders didn't.What Walter Cronkite…
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