After the Tet offensive, Lyndon Johnson declared that America was winding down the war efforts. Ironically, the ensuing year saw the fiercest battles of the war. The terrible battles of 1968 doomed America and Vietnam to five more years of war precisely because they were costly and inconclusive. Spector explores the lesser known aspects of the war, describing in detail the deterioration of American military race relations, the growth of the drug culture and the affects on the soldiers of both the north and the south. Ronald Spector is a professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University.