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The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) - Softcover

Wirtz, James J.

 
9780801482090: The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801482097 ISBN 13: 9780801482090
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2013

Synopsis

In this account of one of the worst intelligence failures in American
history, James J. Wirtz explains why U.S. forces were surprised by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in 1968. Wirtz reconstructs the turning point of the Vietnam War in unprecedented detail. Drawing upon Vietcong and recently declassified U.S. sources, he is able to trace the strategy and unfolding of the Tet campaign as well as the U.S. response.

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About the Author

Peter R. Lavoy is Director, Counterproliferation Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. Scott D. Sagan is Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. James J. Wirtz is Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School and author of The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War, also from Cornell.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801482097
ISBN 13 
9780801482090
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
272