The Tet Offensive : : Intelligence Failure in War / / James J. Wirtz.

In this account of one of the worst intelligence failures in Americanhistory, James J. Wirtz explains why U.S. forces were surprised by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in 1968. Wirtz reconstructs the turning point of the Vietnam War in unprecedented detail. Drawing upon Vietcong and recently decl...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©1994
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Abbreviations --   |t Introduction --   |t Part I. “The Big Victory, The Great Task” --   |t Part II. The Origins Of Surpriseo --   |t Conclusion: Explaining the Failure of Intelligence --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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