{"id":147989,"date":"2018-01-22T02:34:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T07:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=147989"},"modified":"2018-01-22T02:34:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T07:34:58","slug":"50-years-after-key-vietnam-battles-mattis-seeks-closer-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/22\/50-years-after-key-vietnam-battles-mattis-seeks-closer-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"50 years after key Vietnam battles, Mattis seeks closer ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_147992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147992\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/384px-James_Mattis_official_photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-147992\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/384px-James_Mattis_official_photo.jpg\" alt=\"A half-century after the Tet Offensive punctured American hopes of victory in Vietnam, Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is visiting the former enemy in search of a different kind of win. (Photo By Monica King - United States Department of Defense, Public Domain)\" width=\"384\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/384px-James_Mattis_official_photo.jpg 384w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/384px-James_Mattis_official_photo-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A half-century after the Tet Offensive punctured American hopes of victory in Vietnam, Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is visiting the former enemy in search of a different kind of win. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=55410241\">Photo By Monica King &#8211; United States Department of Defense, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A half-century after the Tet Offensive punctured American hopes of victory in Vietnam, Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is visiting the former enemy in search of a different kind of win.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s looking for incremental progress as partners in a part of the world that the Pentagon has identified as vital for the U.S. to compete with China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Mattis left Washington on Sunday and is scheduled to be in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The retired general entered the Marine Corps during Vietnam but didn&#8217;t serve there.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be in Vietnam just days before the 50th anniversary of the communist offensive on Jan. 30-31, 1968. That&#8217;s when North Vietnam attacked an array of key objectives in the South, including the city of Hue (hway).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A half-century after the Tet Offensive punctured American hopes of victory in Vietnam, Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":147992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16,17],"tags":[44273,40014,44272],"class_list":["post-147989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","category-news-w","tag-closer-ties","tag-defence-secretary-jim-mattis","tag-vietnam-battles","mauthors-robert-burns","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}