re: #183 Targetpractice

So it’s Tet all over again, us huddling down and waiting for it all to blow over, while the Taliban makes propaganda headlines about how they’ve driven us into our bases. Yeah, I’m sure when we go back out into the streets, the people will happily welcome us back.

We actually hammered the NVA’s attack on Tet into the ground, and staying in our bases while they attacked our positions was a sound operational decision. We counter attacked promptly back then and scored a major military victory. But Tet also exposed our previous strategy as an utter failure and caused the American public to justifiably lose faith. Creighton Abrams was brought in to replace the failed William Westmoreland, and Richard Nixon adopted better methods at the national level, but the damage had been done.