This is significant because the suspension of Operation RollingThunder was clearly due to the public reaction following the Tet Offensive. Additionally, since the Tet Offensive forced the United States to change one of its primary objectives (the possibility of communist influence in Vietnam), it gave the North Vietnamese a best-worst-case scenario: a negotiated peace rather than a total collapse of the government in Hanoi. This was an important tactical advantage for the North Vietnamese, proving that the Tet Offensive was a strategic victory for the Hanoi government. Overall, the Tet Offensive cost the Viet Cong more than 110,000 casualties, including approximately 45,000 killed, and failed to capture and hold Saigon. , and ultimately failed to unify the whole of Vietnam under communist rule, making it on paper a complete loss and waste of