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Undoubtedly, history's judgment of Westmoreland's generalship will depend in large measure on the outcome of the expected Khe Sanh battle. Some critics feel that defending the remote outpost is a foolish gamble that heavily favors the Communists. "Why fight at Khe Sanh at all?" asks French General André Beaufre, who served for five years in Indo-China. "Logistically, the fight favors the North Vietnamese. You have allowed them once again to choose the time and place of battle...
...kaleidoscopic personality, Johnson was by turns wryly humorous, cautious, defensive, patriotic and pugnacious. "I don't want any damned Dienbienphu," he warned the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a White House discussion of Khe Sanh, cross-examining them at great length about the wisdom of defending the isolated outpost. In an extraordinary gesture, apparently designed to alert everyone to the gravity of the situation, Johnson then made each Chief sign a paper stating that he believed Khe Sanh could be defended...
...began when a guard in his cement-lined outpost at the side entrance of the Independence Palace saw a distant blur of moving men. There was a shout: "Open the palace gates! We are the Liberation Army!" Then, rockets blazing, the Viet Cong commandos charged. From that moment on, fighting broke out all over the city, to the crack and boom of rockets, mortars and bazookas, the chop of machine-gun fire and the whine of ricocheting bullets. For the would-be liberators of the Independence Palace, the reply was a hail of fire. Retreating across the streets, the Communists...
Hué, with Route 1 running through it, lies directly astride the main allied supply line from the Marine bases at Danang and Phu Bai to the encircled outpost of Khe Sanh. There are alternate means of supplying Khe Sanh, but Route 1, which connects with Khe Sanh via Route 9, is the best, and will thus not be left gladly in enemy hands. One of Giap's aims in his general offensive is to stretch U.S. lines?and U.S. troop deployments?as thin and as wide as he can, forcing General Westmoreland to make difficult choices of priority...
...North Viet Nam and Laos. High-speed trails have been cut eastward from Laos into South Viet Nam to supply the Communist besiegers, who are heavily armed with portable howitzers and mortars. To ensure easier access to the new trails, the Communists last week overran the Royal Laotian border outpost of Ban Houei Sane and put its 2,000 defenders to flight...