In early 1968, while American forces focused on battles along the borders of South Vietnam, North Vietnam prepared one of the ...
On the night of January 29, 1968, I was in Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. ‘Still (?),’ the city remained calm. The so-called ‘Tet Offensive,’ in which the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ...
Harlan Ullman writes that U.S. military technology “wasn’t able to defeat the guerilla warfare of North Vietnam” (Letters, Aug. 9). As a veteran of those battles, I respectfully object. The guerilla ...