Palestinian Resistance Tet Offensive
[Rete dei Comunisti in International Bulletin November 2023] On the morning of January 30, 1968, the Vietnamese resistance launched the Tet Offensive, named after the New Year’s Eve in the Vietnamese lunar calendar. The operation was a large-scale and in-depth offensive, the largest of those conducted by either side of the conflict since its inception in 1965, and employed some 85,000 North Vietnamese and Vietcong fighters. In Saigon, the fighters penetrated the Presidential Palace and the U.S. Embassy compound. It was a quantum leap from the guerrilla warfare conducted thus far.
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