"It was after the Tet Offensive, the worst time to be drafted, " Delmer said.
Surges in demand accompany every security crisis, from the Cuban missile crisis to the Tet Offensive to 9-11.
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During the Tet offensive, the North Vietnamese attacked 40 South Vietnamese villages simultaneously with a massive force of 84, 000 troops.
When communist forces in Vietnam unleashed the Tet Offensive, it fueled the debate here at home that raged over that war.
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The Tet offensive was a series of coordinated attacks in 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in U.S.-backed South Vietnam.
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Last Wednesday, President George W. Bush was asked whether it is possible to make a comparison between the recent sharp rise in violence in Iraq and the Tet offensive in Vietnam in January 1968.
They will be heartened by the success of their version of the Vietnam War's Tet offensive and they will be redoubling their sectarian violence and other subversive efforts to translate yesterday's political victory into victory on the ground.
So when the media wonder if one can compare the battles in Iraq today to the Tet offensive, what they really want to know is if they have successfully convinced the American public that its military has lost the war in Iraq.
Hagel described volunteering for Vietnam, serving a 12-month tour that included the Tet Offensive in 1968 a series of surprise North Vietnamese attacks on South Vietnam and its U.S. ally during a holiday cease-fire and rising to the rank of infantry sergeant.
The classified NIE expresses concern that insurgents are planning a Tet-like offensive in coming weeks, according to an administration official.
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Although a threatened Tet-style spring offensive by the Taliban never quite materialized, the level of violence has risen significantly.
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