A new installment of “Lessons Learned” is now out. This week I discuss the Tet Offensive in late January, 1968, and examine what lessons it might have for foreign policy today.
I hope you enjoy it.
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If you’d like to know more about the Tet Offensive, the Vietnam War, and General William Westmoreland, check out these books:
James Arnold, Tet Offensive 1968: Turning Point in Vietnam (1990)
Peter Braestrup, The Big Story (1994)
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George C. Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975, 4th ed. (2001)
Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History (1997)
Don Oberdorfer, Tet! The Turning Point in the Vietnam War (2001)
Lewis Sorley, Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam (2011)
James H. Willbanks, The Tet Offensive: A Concise History (2008)