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...officially reported 40,000 enemy soldiers killed since the Tet offensive began at the beginning of the lunar New Year, some U.S. officers in Saigon reckoned the losses to be closer to one-third of that figure. That would leave North Viet Nam's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap with considerable muscle for a new wave of attacks on the cities. U.S. casualties were a fraction of the Communist losses, but they were the war's heaviest nonetheless, totaling more than 1,350 dead and 6,800 wounded since the beginning of the Tet strikes...
...tries to guess any longer whether or when North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap will attack, either along the DMZ or for a second time against the cities. All that is clear is that whether or not he does, he has already succeeded in putting the allies in a perilous position. He has created a situation in which he could conceivably recapture all that the allies have fought so long and hard to deny him over the past two years: the countryside, where everyone has always agreed the war must ultimately be won or lost. Even in the unlikely event...
...Mekong Delta and as far north as Phu Bai on the coastal plains of I Corps, there was considerable concern in Saigon and Washington. Intelligence officers were all too aware that, despite the doubtless inflated allied claims of 33,000 Communists killed earlier, Hanoi's General Vo Nguyen Giap still has at his disposal in South Viet Nam about 90,000 or so fresh troops that were not committed in the first round...
...Giap's new barrages came while South Viet Nam was grappling to regain a measure of normalcy amid the death and devastation from the first at tacks on 35 population centers. Though some fighting still went on in Saigon's environs and even heightened in the old imperial capital of Hué, the roar and whine of bombs and bullets had faded from most other cities before last week's assault. As the toll of the first attack continued to rise day by day-nearly 4,000 civilians dead and another 337,000 made homeless-the allies...
...week's end General Giap was still pondering that price-and perhaps plotting new surprises. To preclude one such possibility, intelligence officers spread the warning among U.S. bases that North Vietnamese MIG-21s may strike Khe Sanh or other places in I Corps and that Hanoi might even try to send its handful of Russian IL-28 jet bombers as far south as Saigon. For several months, Giap is known to have been considering the use of warplanes in the south. Despite the huge array of U.S. radar, missiles and interceptors stationed to defeat any such attempt, the experts...