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The Warning That Left Something to Chance: Intelligence at Tet

The Warning That Left Something to Chance: Intelligence at Tet T h e W a r n i n g T h a t Left S o m e t h i n g to C h a n c e : I n t e l l i g e n c e a t Tet John Prados Tacoma Park, Maryland Two meanings of the word "chance" are relevant to the present p u r - pose. One is chance as a r a n d o m f a c t o r - f o r this subject the accidental conjunction of chance occurrences that could have furnished w a r n i n g of a large-scale nationwide N o r t h Vietnamese a n d Vietcong (VC) of- fensive in Vietnam at Tet in 1968. The second relevant meaning is chance as risk. I believe the reasons for the c o n t i n u i n g c o n t r o v e r s y o v e r w h e t h e r there was a " s u r p r i s e " at Tet have m u c h to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

The Warning That Left Something to Chance: Intelligence at Tet

Journal of American-East Asian Relations , Volume 2 (2): 161 – Jan 1, 1993

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1993 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1058-3947
eISSN
1876-5610
DOI
10.1163/187656193X00031
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Abstract

T h e W a r n i n g T h a t Left S o m e t h i n g to C h a n c e : I n t e l l i g e n c e a t Tet John Prados Tacoma Park, Maryland Two meanings of the word "chance" are relevant to the present p u r - pose. One is chance as a r a n d o m f a c t o r - f o r this subject the accidental conjunction of chance occurrences that could have furnished w a r n i n g of a large-scale nationwide N o r t h Vietnamese a n d Vietcong (VC) of- fensive in Vietnam at Tet in 1968. The second relevant meaning is chance as risk. I believe the reasons for the c o n t i n u i n g c o n t r o v e r s y o v e r w h e t h e r there was a " s u r p r i s e " at Tet have m u c h to

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Journal of American-East Asian RelationsBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1993

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