The press and its ability to shape public opinion has been historically powerful. The object of war is to kill the enemy and destroy its will to fight. The North Vietnamese had the most powerful possible ally, the U.S. press that sold the North's crushing military defeat in the 1968 Tet offensive as victory to the American public. While …
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The press and its ability to shape public opinion has been historically powerful. The object of war is to kill the enemy and destroy its will to fight. The North Vietnamese had the most powerful possible ally, the U.S. press that sold the North's crushing military defeat in the 1968 Tet offensive as victory to the American public. While …
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