I'm Abbie Hoffman at a 60s party for History. One of the questions I have to answer for it is who is winning? and its a 60s party so it means who is winning IN THE 60s
i kno NV won in the end. thanks!!
2007-06-06 09:35:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The United States was winning for awhile until the Tet Offensive in 1968. In truth, the NVA and Vietcong actually lost the offensive, but the US military and the US government lost the war of public opinion after that.
2007-06-06 09:40:58 · answer #1 · answered by kepjr100 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tet was a smashing victory for the US; and even though it permanently soured US public opinion, it was not anywhere near "the beginning of the end". When the last US troops were pulled out in 1972, "we" (the allies: US, South Vietnam, South Korea and Australia (i think the Aussies were already gone)) had almost total control of the South.
It is because with the destruction of the VC with Tet, the North expended their most valuable weapon in the south. They no longer had guerrilla warfare experts. From 1968 on, the war increasingly became a conventional war between US/ARVN and the NVA.
It took the North two more years of hammering on an unsupported South to finally win.
2007-06-06 10:09:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The US objective in Vietnam was to create a stable anti-communist government, and we were not succeeding. However the US military outclassed their opponents so they were not losing. Abbie Hoffman and anti war people would have concentrated on the former and supporters of the war on the latter. The current debate about Iraq is a replay of the one that took place about Vietnam, except the casualty rates are much lower now and there is no draft.
2007-06-06 13:26:33 · answer #3 · answered by meg 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hoffman, at that time would probably have given the answer that the anti-war protesters and the counter culture were winning - irrespective of the military situation on the ground in Vietnam. Hoffman was just as much concerned with social and political change in the States as well as opposing US involvement in the War.
http://www.answers.com/topic/abbie-hoffman
2007-06-06 12:53:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
After the TET offensive of 1968, which resulted in street fighting in downtown Saigon, it was obvious the VC were winning. Even though they lost that battle, it still took us a long time to put 'em down, and they'd hit us in an area we supposedly had under ironclad control. That was really the beginning of the end.
2007-06-06 09:44:56 · answer #5 · answered by texasjewboy12 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋