This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive by James S Robbins

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By James S Robbins

Most of what americans have heard in regards to the Tet Offensive is incorrect. The short battles in early 1968 through the Vietnam clash marked the dividing line among sluggish growth towards attainable victory and gradual descent to a humiliating defeat. That the enemy used to be handily defeated at the flooring was once thought of immaterial; that it could possibly mount assaults in any respect used to be deemed an army triumph for the Communists. This power view of Tet is a defeatist tale line that maintains to encourage America’s international enemies and its family critics of using strength abroad.

In This Time We Win, James S. Robbins ultimately presents an antidote to the wrong Tet mythology nonetheless shaping the perceptions of yankee army conflicts opposed to unconventional enemies and haunting our troops in strive against. In his second look of the Tet Offensive, Robbins analyzes the Tet battles and their influence during the subject matters of terrorism, warfare crimes, intelligence failure, troop surges, management breakdown, and media bias. the result's an explosion of the traditional knowledge approximately this notorious surge, one who bargains actual classes for today’s unconventional wars. with out a transparent knowing of those classes, we'll locate ourselves refighting the Tet Offensive back and again.

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