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 Preparations for the offensive were already underway . The logistical build @-@ up began in mid @-@ year , and by January 1968 , 81 @,@ 000 tons of supplies and 200 @,@ 000 troops , including seven complete infantry regiments and 20 independent battalions made the trip south on the Ho Chi Minh Trail . This logistical effort also involved re @-@ arming the Viet Cong with new AK @-@ 47 assault rifles and B @-@ 40 rocket @-@ propelled grenade launchers , which granted them superior firepower over their less well @-@ armed ARVN opponents . To pave the way and to confuse the allies as to its intentions , Hanoi launched a diplomatic offensive . Foreign Minister Trinh announced on 30 December that Hanoi would rather than could open negotiations if the U.S. unconditionally ended Operation Rolling Thunder , the bombing campaign against North Vietnam . This announcement provoked a flurry of diplomatic activity ( which amounted to nothing ) during the last weeks of the year . 

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 The main problems were the pressure of time and the desire of the U.S. president for secrecy . The Cambodian monsoon , whose heavy rains would hamper operations , was only two months away . By the order of the president , the State Department did not notify the Cambodian desk at the US Embassy , Saigon , the Phnom Penh embassy , or Lon Nol of the planning . Operational security was as tight as General Abrams could make it . There was to be no prior U.S. logistical build @-@ up in the border regions which might serve as a signal to the communists . U.S. brigade commanders were informed only a week in advance of the offensive , while battalion commanders got only two or three days ' notice . 

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 After the first week of operations , additional battalion and brigade units were committed to the operation , so that between 6 and 24 May , a total of 90 @,@ 000 Allied troops ( including 33 U.S. maneuver battalions ) were conducting operations inside Cambodia . Due to increasing political and domestic turbulence in the U.S. , President Nixon issued a directive on 7 May limiting the distance and duration of U.S. operations to a depth of 30 kilometers ( 19 mi ) and setting a deadline of 30 June for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces to South Vietnam . 

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 On 10 June 1963 , U.S. correspondents were informed that " something important " would happen the following morning on the road outside the Cambodian embassy in Saigon . Most of the reporters disregarded the message , since the Buddhist crisis had at that point been going on for more than a month , and the next day only a few journalists turned up , including David Halberstam of The New York Times and Malcolm Browne , the Saigon bureau chief for the Associated Press . Đức arrived as part of a procession that had begun at a nearby pagoda . Around 350 monks and nuns marched in two phalanxes , preceded by an Austin Westminster sedan , carrying banners printed in both English and Vietnamese . They denounced the Diệm government and its policy towards Buddhists , demanding that it fulfill its promises of religious equality . Another monk offered himself , but Đức 's seniority prevailed . 

entailment
 In the days immediately preceding the offensive , the preparedness of allied forces was relatively relaxed . Hanoi had announced in October that it would observe a seven @-@ day truce from 27 January to 3 February for the Tet holiday , and the South Vietnamese military made plans to allow recreational leave for approximately half of its forces . General Westmoreland , who had already cancelled the truce in I Corps , requested that its ally cancel the upcoming cease @-@ fire , but President Thiệu ( who had already reduced the cease @-@ fire to 36 hours ) , refused to do so , claiming that it would damage troop morale and only benefit communist propagandists . 
