The Tragedy of the Vietnam War: A South Vietnamese Officer’s Analysis by van Nguyen Duong

Author:van Nguyen Duong [Duong, van Nguyen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Autobiography, Biography, History, Non-Fiction, Vietnam, War & Military
ISBN: 9780786483389
Google: pVNaoUu7veUC
Amazon: B06WV8NHQD
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-07-14T23:00:00+00:00

Later, General Frederic C. Weyand, the last MACV Commander and the U.S. general most trusted and admired in South Vietnamese intellectual and military circles, described the communist Tet 1968 Offensive campaign:

First, by attacking everywhere at once, they [the communists] fragmented their forces and laid themselves open to defeat in detail. Second, and most important, they believed their own propaganda and thought there would be a “great general uprising” wherein the South Vietnamese people would flock to their banner. There was a great general uprising all right, but it was against them rather than for them. The vast majority of South Vietnamese people wanted nothing to do with VC. During the entire course of the war there were never any mass defections by the South Vietnamese. But it is interesting to note that in the aftermath of the Tet-Offensive more than 150,000 VC deserters came over to our side.”17

After President Johnson gave up on the war, some said that the United States had been stabbed in the back from within, possibly by the media and the anti-war movement. Some historians asserted that the lack of American will and a politically defective policy finally turned the American people against the war. The real battle Johnson had fought and lost was not the communist Tet Offensive in South Vietnam, it was the conquest of the hearts and minds of his own people.

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