Who'd have ever thought the Taliban in Afghanistan would try to emulate Hanoi's strategy in the latter days of the Vietnam war. When Hanoi was losing the ground war against American soldiers in Vietnam, it switched to propaganda and capitalizing on war weariness in the U.S. itself. After the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam, when the Viet Cong staged simultaneous attacks on the Americans all over Vietnam, the U.S. media depicted it as a tremendous enemy coup when actually it was a huge military miscalculation and a disaster for the VC. Thereafter in the war, the Viet Cong gave way...
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