When Americans wince upon hearing presidents make proclamations about foreign policy, the legacy of the 1968 Tet Offensive looms large. On January 30, at the start of the sacred Vietnamese holiday of ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. At first I thought Keith McCormick's letter was merely another boring historical analysis of the ...

In January 1968, during the Lunar New Year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. The U.S. and ...

Monday marks the 55th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, which deserves to remembered not only as perhaps the most pivotal battle of the Vietnam War but also for its profound, lasting leadership ...

Daniel Henninger is right (“Can Israel Win the Message War?” Wonder Land, Oct. 26). In the TV age, the shifting tides of public opinion are as important in war as firepower and force strength. Hamas ...

In 1968, when U.S. officials were claiming the Vietnam War was nearly won, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong launched a devastating attack during... Military Victory But Political Defeat: The Tet ...

This was the message from North Vietnamese forces that inaugurated the Tet Offensive. The historical parallels are jarring: a force perceived to be on their backheels demonstrating a willful display ...

In early 1968, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army launched a major offensive across South Vietnam. The U.S. embassy in Saigon was breached. The imperial capital of Hue was overrun. Eventually, ...

More than five decades later, the horrific memories from the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive come rushing back to Bob Selby of Oyster Bay as if they were yesterday. The brazen 11 p.m. attack on his fire ...

Doris Allen, an Army intelligence analyst during the Vietnam War whose warning about the impending attacks in early 1968 by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces that became known as the Tet offensive ...

“We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one,” former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once reflected on Vietnam. “We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our ...