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Tet broke the back of the VC:Wait are you saying that NVA forced the NLF/VC to engage in the Tet Offensive to weaken them? If my memory is bad Le Duan who was in power in North Vietnam, had fought in the south and was part of the NLF at one point, would he purposefully send them to their deaths? Although the NLF were largely ad-hoc groups of people who didn't like the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong#Tet_Offensive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive#North_Vietnam_2
Some Western historians have come to believe that one insidious ulterior motive for the campaign was the elimination of competing southern members of the Party, thereby allowing the northerners more control once the war was won.[167]
Its an open question of whether the offensive was partially launched to remove them as a major political player in the conflict that the North would have to work with post-war. Certainly that wasn't the driving motive, as they genuinely believed they could break the South and the US with the offensive; I think it might have been a 'two birds, one stone' issue where they sought to end the war in one big push, while also removing a potential political threat for their regime post-war.