[AntEater]

It is still debated wether Tet was just a ploy by Giap to get rid of the all too independent southern guerillas who sometimes deviated from the party line. The Viet Cong, contained more than just communists faithful to Hanoi. Same as Castro's Guerillas were a mix of every political faction before he seized power.
Wether deliberate or not, at Tet the Vietcong came out voluntarily. The Taliban sofar have shown no sign of a similar offensive though I suppose they could pull off something similar, with similar results.

Btw, another german idiocy in Afghanistan:
Norwegians are engaged again. The QRF has crossed into the western sector to engage taliban forces there. A german general has overall command, but the actual fighting is done by Norway. A whopping 63 german soldiers were to support this OP in various staff, ELINT and medical functions. While the Norwegians with US support were preparing, the decision to send this army of 63 staffers, clerks, spooks and medics over an imaginary line in Afghanistan had to be made at ministry level (!) and took a week (!) by which the operation was well underway.
Funny is, Germany well take over QRF duties in July, so I suppose the german overall commander wants to land some decisive blow while he still has a fighting force that can move and even fight without written permission that is first forgotten, then subjected to public enquiry, then thrown away, then used for nest building of endagered species, then eaten and **** out again and then......