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The Tet offensive was a military victory but a political failure. The Americans had advanced technology and military to fight a head to head fight, but that wasn't the case for the Americans in the Vietnam war. The NLF was using the guerrilla warfare which was effective towards the American. The tactic includes boobytraps, snipers and ambush. This caused massive stress to the American soldiers causing to behave immorally, by killing innocent civilians. At the end of the Tet offensive president, Johnson resigned himself, because of the antiwar movement from the exposure of the pictures in the war. That caused people to question if the war is worth it or not. They were questioning if they are fighting for the right side and if what they are doing is morally correct. They wanted to withdraw from the war, but not to admit their defeat. Taking the Americans long time to withdraw from the war and that's why the movement took a long time.

Bibliography

The Vietnam War

by Mark Atwood Lawrence

p. 115 Prelude