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We've known for some time that the Ted Offensive ended poorly for the North Vietnamese in military terms.

We have not understood what motivated them, and it turns out they actually did this because they were becoming impatient with how badly things were going.

Turns out they did not have an infinite tolerance for casualties.

This is your host, Scott Bertram.

And that's Dr. Mark Moyer.

He is William P. Harris Chair in Military History at Hillsdale College,

author of six books on military history, and the new one out soon.

Triumph regained.

The Vietnam War, 1965 through 1968.

Dr. Moyer, thanks so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me on, Scott.

You anticipated one volume.

We now have two.

There's a third on the way.

How did that happen?

Good question, Scott.

Yes, initially I was trying to write a one-volume history of Vietnam that would take on a lot of the myths of Vietnam,

especially those that have come out of the anti-war left. And typically when you do something of

this magnitude, you will synthesize the works of other scholars rather than trying

to view the huge mass of data yourself, because that task is often so daunting.

But when I started getting into it, I realized that those existing histories that I was going to

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