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This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive
James S Robbins
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| #165573 in Books | Encounter Books | 2010-09-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.30 x1.19 x6.38l,1.60 | File type: PDF | 360 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Battle of Narratives|By Eric Maroney|In This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive, author James S. Robbins offers a revision of the famous Viet Cong, NVA surprise offensive of 1968, a battle which supposedly uncovered the impossibility of winning the war in Vietnam.
Robbins writes many things that make sense: Tet was a decisive loss for the NVA and VC. In fac|From Publishers Weekly|Robbins, a senior editorial writer for foreign affairs at The Washington Times, invokes Osama bin Ladin to argue that the guerilla warfare tactics of American enemies has historically lead to the U.S. losing fights against inferior troops;
Most of what Americans know about the Tet Offensive is wrong. The brief 1968 battle during the Vietnam conflict marked the dividing line between gradual progress towards an ill-defined victory, and slow descent to a humiliating defeat. The fact that the enemy was, in fact, handily defeated on the ground was immaterial; that they could mount an attack at all was deemed a military triumph for the Vietcong. At least this is the received wisdom of Tet.
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