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...offensive were boundless. The attackers were led to be lieve that they were really going to take and hold the cities and towns and bring the war to a quick and victorious end. The South Vietnamese government was to be smashed. The Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) was expected to desert to the Viet Cong in wholesale units. The Communists confidently anticipated that the population would welcome the attackers in a great popular uprising. The result would leave the U.S. naked as Giap's only remaining antagonist in Viet...
...demobilization of soldiers who have completed their military service will be stopped, and veterans mustered out will be recalled to active service. The measures would add some 65,000 men to the 650,000-man ARVN. Thieu also announced that the nation's taxes would be raised...
...allied commanders, these posed a grim dilemma that was summed up bluntly-and injudiciously-by a U.S. major involved in the battle for Ben Tre. "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it," he said. The Viet Cong had nearly the whole town under their control. The ARVN defenders were pinned down in their barracks, the U.S. advisory compound was in danger of being overrun, and the Viet Cong were within 50 yards of the provincial tactical operations center. "They are our friends in there," said one of the Americans ruefully. "We waited until we had no choice...
...tactics no doubt contributed to the failure of the Vietnamese to heed the call to a "general uprising." No sooner had the general offensive got under way than both the Viet Cong radio and Radio Hanoi began calling for the South Vietnamese to greet the attackers as liberators, for ARVN soldiers to throw in their arms with the Communists and help overthrow the Thieu government. In Hué and Saigon, the Communists announced the formation of revolutionary Committees of the Alliance of National and Peace Forces. But throughout South Viet Nam there were few takers. In Danang, when a Viet Cong...
...they turned to aid the South Vietnamese in rooting out the NVA, who reportedly were being guided and fed by Hué students. In the twisting alleyways of the old city, digging out the Communists turned out to be a tough task. After two days of combat, President Thieu phoned ARVN I Corps Commander Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam and demanded that he get Hué back in allied hands?and "get it back fast...