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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Maps | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Historical Overview | |
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| Prelude | |
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| American Public Opinion | |
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| Public Relations and Westmoreland's Optimism | |
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| Troop Disposition | |
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| The Communist Decision to Conduct the Offensive | |
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| The Plan | |
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| Preparing for the Offensive | |
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| Border Battles, Hill Fights, and Khe Sanh | |
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| Khe Sanh | |
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| The Hill Fights | |
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| Operation Niagara | |
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| The Siege of Khe Sanh Begins | |
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| The Tet Offensive | |
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| The Offensive Begins | |
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| The Battle for Saigon | |
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| The Battle at the U.S. Embassy | |
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| Attacks Around the City | |
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| The Battle of Cholon | |
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| Tet Countrywide | |
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| The Battle for Hue | |
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| The Battle Begins | |
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| The Marines Respond | |
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| Fighting in the New City | |
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| The Fight for the Citadel | |
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| The Siege of Khe Sanh | |
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| The Fall of Lang Vei | |
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| Resupplying the Marines | |
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| Tactical Air Support | |
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| A New Attack | |
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| Lifting the Siege | |
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| The Impact of the Tet Offensive | |
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| Political Fallout | |
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| The Request for Additional Troops | |
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| The New Hampshire Primary | |
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| The Presidential Election of 1968 | |
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| Assessing the Tet Offensive | |
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| Issues and Interpretations | |
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| Motivations and Objectives of the Tet Offensive | |
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| Military Intelligence and Surprise at Tet | |
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| What Happened at Hue? | |
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| Why Khe Sank? | |
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| Tet and the Media | |
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| Tet and American Military Strategy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Chronology, 1967-68 | |
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| The Tet Offensive A to Z | |
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| Documents | |
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| President Johnson's "San Antonio Formula" Speech of September 29, 1967 | |
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| Directive on Forthcoming Offensive and Uprisings, Provincial Party Standing Committee, 1 November 1967 | |
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| Capabilities of the Vietnamese Communists for Fighting in South Vietnam, November 13, 1967 (Extract) | |
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| Address by Commander of U.S. Forces in Vietnam, General William C. Westmoreland, November 21, 1967 (Extract) | |
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| "Saigon Under Fire," CBS News Special Report, January 31, 1968 | |
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| Memorandum from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle G. Wheeler for the President, February 12, 1968 (Extract) | |
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| Walter Cronkite's "We Are Mired in Stalemate" CBS News Broadcast, February 27, 1968 | |
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| Report of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle G. Wheeler on the Situation in Vietnam and MACV Force Requirements, February 27, 1968 (Extract) | |
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| Summary of Notes from March 26, 1968, Meeting Between President Lyndon Johnson and the Wise Men | |
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| President Johnson's Address to the Nation Announcing His Decision Not to Seek Reelection, March 31, 1968 | |
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| Resources | |
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| General Works | |
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| Encyclopedias, Bibliographies, Dictionaries, Guides, and Atlases | |
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| General Histories, Anthologies | |
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| Biographies | |
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| Memoirs | |
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| Vietnamese Perspectives | |
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| Oral Histories | |
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| Document Collections | |
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| Lyndon Johnson and the War | |
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| The Tet Offensive | |
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| The Battle of Hue | |
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| The Siege of Khe Sanh | |
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| The Hill Fights and Border Battles | |
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| President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Media | |
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| Military Intelligence and Tet | |
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| U.S. Strategy in Vietnam | |
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| Combat After-action Reports and Command Histories | |
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| Microfilm/Microfiche | |
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| Documentary Films | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Web Sites | |
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| CD-ROMs | |
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| Archives and Libraries | |
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| Index | |