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Publisher/Org.: Varies: Empire ; Primedia ; Cowles ; Weider ; HistoryNet-World

General Note: 1988- / Bimonthly numbering: June-1 ; August-2 ; October-3 ; December-4 ; February-5 ; April-6 / Publisher Varies: Empire, Primedia Enthusiast, Cowles, Weider, HistoryNet-World / Quarterly Summer 1988-Summer 1989

Existence: February 1995

General Note: 8 Fighting Forces: Public information officers helped the media tell the public what was going on and made sure the troops got the credit they deserved.
10 Arsenal: Landing their gunship to capture a VC seemed like a good idea, but they the hidden enemy opened fire.
16 Personality: 'The nurses saw more gore and blood than the corpsmen in the field....They had to decide who was going to...die.'
54 Reviews: When the NVA came South, the 'Magnificent Bastards' and the 'Gimlets' stopped them cold.
62 Perspectives: After North Korea seized USS Pueblo on the eve of Tet, it looked like the Communists had opened a two-front war.
22 The Failure of Intelligence: A look at why U.S. intelligence failed prior to the 1968 Communist Tet Offensive. Were the MACV intelligence staff members merely incompetent?
30 Armored Assault On Lang Vei: Using tanks for the first time in the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army overran the Lang Vei Special Forces camp outside Khe Sanh.
38 Window of Opportunity: America's misunderstanding of the NVA concept of 'decisive victory' helped the enemy launch the surprising 1968 Tet Offensive.
46 Defending Long Binh: During Tet 1968, the soldiers of the 856th Radio Research Detachment went from listening to the enemy's radio traffic to fighting the enemy firsthand.

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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial140159. February 1995, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial140159, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial140159, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive