From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I don't know but one of the C.I.A.s postmortem bullet points on the Tet
Offensive was 

http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/vietnam/epis3.html

That "prevailing estimates of attrition, infiltration, and local
recruitment, reports of low morale, and a long series of defeats had
degraded our image of the enemy."


"James Adams"  wrote in message
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> >
>>
>>The Tet offensive was a major blunder by the NVA.
>
> I've always wondered if there was another purpose to the Tet offense.  Tet
> pretty much destroyed the VC as a viavble force in the RVN.  I wondered if
> the VC were sacrificed by the North in order to make it easier to
> consolidate their power once they triumphed in the South.
>
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