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...Saigon, says one general, an attack on the encircling Communists "is imminent" because "the enemy just can't be left to hold even a rapier-sized sword near the city." In the North, another U.S. commander declared that the concentration of some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong has given the U.S. "silver-platter" opportunities to bring its firepower to bear in conventional battles...
...that the Communists were idle. At South Viet Nam's southern tip, the Viet Cong slashed into the town of Ca Mau, seized the provincial hospital and held it for eleven hours before finally being driven out, leaving 275 of their dead behind. North Vietnamese troops wiped out a small U.S.-South Vietnamese camp only six miles from Danang, but U.S. troopers, with the aid of air and artillery, caught and killed 129 of the Communists south of the city. U.S. Marine and ARVN troopers, sweeping northeast of the DMZ Marine supply base of Dong Ha, found a battalion...
...main reason for the Communists' stronger military position in South Viet Nam is the fact that in recent months they have been receiving more powerful weapons in vastly increased numbers. Instead of the old-fashioned rifles and homemade mortars of a few years ago, the Communists-both Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars-are now equipped with increasingly sophisticated and effective weapons, particularly long-range rockets. Their introduction has drastically changed the strategic situation and presented the U.S. and the South Vietnamese with a new and troublesome factor...
...unpleasant fact is that the Viet Cong used the Tet assault to infiltrate into Saigon hundreds and perhaps even thousands of agents who pose as normal Vietnamese going about their jobs. The chief mission of such agents is to try to turn the resentment of the Saigonese against the government and the Americans, charging them with the destruction of the city after the V.C. invasion. Meanwhile, V.C. assassination squads operate in broad daylight. The results of their handiwork turn up-hands bound and bodies mutilated-in the river. The V.C. have been active in Saigon for years...
...have drawn from the history of the Vietnam war exactly the opposite conclusion to the one the U.S. intends for them. The facts seem clear. Even with half a million men and enormous firepower the U.S. has not been able to wrest control of the countryside from the Viet Cong. To the revolutionaries this means simply that the U.S. can be beaten. No matter what happens in the future they will not lose this conviction...