Abstract
Official United States spokesmen in Washington and Saigon, aided and abetted as usual by the news media, are attempting to put two principal but by no means mutually exclusive interpretations on the most recent developments in South Vietnam. First, they claim that the general uprising in all the main cities and towns of the country is a last desperate fling of the Vietcong which either already has been or very soon will be militarily crushed. And second, they assert that the timing and scale of the attacks were designed to pin down or draw off United States and South Vietnamese forces from the impending battle between United States Marines and North Vietnamese regulars at Khesanh in the northwest corner of South Vietnam.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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