Most of the attacks during the Tet Offensive were turned back, and communist forces suffered heavy losses.
Sources
- Tet Offensive shakes Cold War confidence | January 30, 1968 | HISTORY (history.com)
- https://www.archives.gov/news/topics/vietnams-tet-offensive-50-years-later (archives.gov)
- https://www.intelligence.gov/tet-declassified/tet-at-fifty (intelligence.gov)
- https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/remembering-vietnam-war-50th-anniversary-tet-offensive-january-30-1968/ (abmc.gov)
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