Edwin E. Moise

Edwin Moise began his career as a historian of Modern China and Modern Vietnam. His books Land Reform in China and North Vietnam, and Modern China: A History, came from those interests. Today he is primarily a military historian specializing in the Vietnam War. Moise's book Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War was not the first work to suggest that the second Tonkin Gulf incident (August 4, 1964) had been imaginary--the two US destroyers involved had been shooting at ghost images on their radar, not at actual enemy vessels--but it was the first to present solid evidence for that conclusion. A revised edition, incorporating considerable information from NSA about intercepted North Vietnamese naval communications, is to be published in 2019. The Myths of Tet looks at the Tet Offensive of 1968 in the context of fluctuations in US intelligence estimates of Communist strength, and fluctuations in actual Communist strength, from 1967 to 1969.