Obscuring Victory and Defeat. The Vietnamese TET Offensive: An Operational Perspective.

Abstract

This case study analyzes the role of operational art in irregular actions directed against American/South Vietnamese forces during the early months of 1968. Initiated to coincide with the celebration of the Lunar New Year of the monkey or tet, it is considered by most historical accounts as the turning point of the Vietnam War.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 16, 1995
Accession Number
ADA297964

Entities

People

  • G. P. Gish

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Case Studies
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Perception
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • South Vietnam
  • United States
  • Vietnam War
  • War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • Space