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    History of War

    A STRATEGIC VICTORY?

    Nov 28, 2019 3 minutes

    When North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap conceived the master plan for the Tet Offensive he did so with clear objectives.

    Giap hoped to spark a general uprising against the corrupt South Vietnamese government of President Nguyen Van Thieu, destabilising the political situation within South Vietnam. He wanted to convince the American people that the Vietnam War, already a protracted and costly endeavour by early 1968, was nowhere near conclusion.

    He also sought to demonstrate that Communist forces could strike at the time

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