It was also tasked, as a last resort, to augment the RLAF to counter a renewed Communist offensive in Laos.

Personnel from local Viet Cong units infiltrated Kontum and Pleiku to spread rumours of a 'big Communist offensive' on the aforementioned districts.

In December 1967, the Communist military offensive in the region was signalled by a series of skirmishes.

U.S. air power was credited with breaking the siege of Khe Sanh and blunting the 1972 Communist offensive against South Vietnam.

The Chinese Communist offensive put these on hold for the moment, and he was nearly killed during the withdrawal in a snowstorm until saved by a joint American-British force.

So involvement of U.S. forces in the first day of the Communist offensive is never factored in.

Both Communist offensives in Hunan were successful.

Mid-May saw a new series of Communist offensives, all over the country.

Even though it was obvious that preparations for a major Communist offensive were under way, South Vietnamese commanders were unable to predict their enemies' intentions.

By 1949, a series of Chinese Communist offensives led to the defeat of the Nationalist army, and the Communists founded the People's Republic of China on 1 October.