Zelenskyy’s Tet Offensive

A historic success, a surprising turn, and still more proof of the immutable laws of conflict.

In the afterglow of history, it’s often forgotten that, well into the late 1960s, a majority of the American people—as well as the mainstream media—were supportive of the Vietnam war. The turning point arrived on January 30, 1968 with what we now know as the Tet Offensive, when the Viet Cong (as we called them; the National Liberation Front, as they called themselves) launched a shocking, multipronged series of simultaneous attacks, including penetrating the very grounds of the US Embassy compound in Saigon.