The Tet Offensive was a military victory for the south Vietnamese and a psychological victory for the north.
The Tet Offensive of early 1968 constituted the biggest military setback suffered by communist forces: the combined armies of the National Front for the Liberation of Southern Vietnam (NLF, or Viet Cong) and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, the North's regular army) – in the Vietnam War.
The Tet Offensive by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, constituted one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies.