After Tet: The bloodiest year in Vietnam
Ronald H. Spector published 1993
Found: looking up another book on the Library website.
Progressed to p. 57

1. It is best to compare Vietnam not to WWII or Korea but to WWI. A war of stalemates that for a long time both sides thought the other would break if they just waited it out a little longer.

2. The army that fought in the war was an Army of Vietnam...one specifically created for that theater with NCOs and Officers created in weeks and all but the top positions filled by non career soldiers.

3. The death rate for American service men in 1968 was as high as the fighting in the Pacific.

4. 1968: The Tet offensive happens in Jan.  Johnson give his "peace" address in March, says he will not run  and the cease bombing faction wins for a while ---Robert McNamara was no longer Sec. Def. had taken a position as head of the World Bank.

5. Earlier in a massive strike against N.V. POL targets the U.S. destroys most of the North's oil storage capabilities but the N.V. use comparatively little oil in their fighting and can be supplied by tankers off shore unloading already drummed oil.