Tentuz eta ongi burutu zen, AEBetako eta Hego Vietnamgo Armadak ustekabean hartuz, ez baizuten tamaina hartako erasoaldirik espero, ez kopuruz ez eta antolaketaz. Orokorrean porrot egin zuen arren, Ipar Vietnamgo nahiz Vietcongentzat garaipen politiko eta propagandistikoa izan zen, erasoaldian zehar 14.000 estatubatuar soldadu hil izanak AEBetako iritzi publikoak gaizki jaso eta herrialde horretan Vietnamgo Gerran parte hartzearen aurkako jarrerak are gehiago emendatu baitziren.
↑Tổng công kích, Tổng nổi dậy Tết mậu thân 1968 (Tet Offensive 1968) – ARVN's Đại Nam publishing in 1969, p. 35
↑Does not include ARVN or U.S. casualties incurred during the "Border Battles"; ARVN killed, wounded, or missing from Phase III; U.S. wounded from Phase III; or U.S. missing during Phases II and III.
↑Steel and Blood: South Vietnamese Armor and the War for Southeast Asia. Naval Institute Press, 2008. P 33
↑Includes casualties incurred during the "Border Battles", Tet Mau Than, and the second and third phases of the offensive. General Tran Van Tra claimed that from January through August 1968 the offensive had cost North Vietnam more than 75,000 dead and wounded. This is probably a low estimate. Tran Van Tra, Tet, in Jayne S. Warner and Luu Doan Huynh, eds., The Vietnam War: Vietnamese and American Perspectives. Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993, pgs. 49 & 50.
↑PAVN's Department of warfare, 124th/TGi, document 1.103 (11-2-1969)