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...campaign that could change the military situation. Thus last month he ordered his generals to go on the offensive. The first response came in Military Region I, where his best troops are concentrated. Moreover, these forces are commanded by South Viet Nam's best general, Lieut. General Ngo Quang Truong, who took over the region in May after the defeat at Quang...
Initially, the aim of Truong's thrust appeared to be the relatively conservative one of securing the districts of Trieu Phong and Hai Lang to the east and south of Quang Tri city. Thieu himself implied as much when he told reporters a week earlier that the recapture of the city was a matter of little concern at the moment. Last week, South Vietnamese troops moved closer and closer to the provincial capital. It is possible that Thieu was trying to throw the North
Vietnamese off guard with his earlier statement. But it is also conceivable that the South Vietnamese, surprised by the initial weakness of the Communist resistance, changed their minds in mid-offensive and launched an all-out effort to recapture Quang Tri city, the only provincial capital lost to the Communists in the Easter offensive...
Resistance. The North Vietnamese still have plenty of firepower in the area. Soon after the ARVN drive on Quang Tri city began, the Communists began shelling the former imperial capital of Hue, 30 miles south, with rockets, mortars and artillery, damaging the string of South Vietnamese fire bases that form a defense line southwest...
...shelling underscored the greatest risk inherent in the South Vietnamese push into Quang Tri: the possibility that the Communists might outflank General Truong's forces and at long last mount their often predicted attack on Hue. So far there is no certainty that such an attack is coming. The city's defense is primarily in the hands of a single ARVN division, the 1st, which would be hard pressed if the enemy tried a flanking movement that culminated in a sudden jab at Hue. South Vietnamese commanders seemed confident that a Communist attack on Hue could be kept...