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| Introduction | |
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| Why We Were in Vietnam | |
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| Vietnam 1954-1960 (Nation Building 101) | |
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| The playboy and the priest | |
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| Camelot It Was Not | |
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| Sideshow in Laos: Instructive history ignored | |
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| Vietnam: JFK's godchild | |
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| JFK's big adventure goes sour | |
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| Blaming Diem | |
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| Flaming Buddhists | |
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| The end of Diem | |
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| LBJ's War | |
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| China Beach Blanket Bingo | |
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| Earlier heroics | |
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| Hey, hey, LBJ, how in the heck did you get us into this mess? | |
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| Air War Vietnam | |
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| Rolling (intermittent with light showers) Thunder, March 1965 to November 1968 | |
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| Operation Barrel Roll, December 1964 to March 1973 | |
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| Operation Steel Tiger, April 1965 to November 1968 | |
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| Tet | |
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| Unheralded Victory | |
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| The reason why | |
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| The missing (largely successful) years | |
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| Abrams, Bunker, Colby: The team that could | |
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| The old order changeth | |
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| The Phoenix Program | |
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| The handoff to Nixon-no more Mr. Nice Guy | |
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| The "secret" bombing | |
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| The Cambodian "Invasion" | |
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| Nixon delivers | |
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| The 1972 Christmas Bombing | |
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| Endgame | |
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| The Anti-War Movement | |
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| "Oh, come on, were the Commies really that bad?" | |
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| "Jane, you ignorant slut." (Actually Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin on Saturday Night Live, but...) | |
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| Not the VFW | |
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| Six great myths of the Anti-War Movement | |
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| "The government of South Vietnam is corrupt and unworthy of our support" | |
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| "The Vietnam War is a civil war that needs to be decided by its own people" | |
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| "The American people don't support the war" | |
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| "The Vietnam war is a proxy war between the capitalist West and the Communist East" | |
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| "The war is immoral" | |
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| "It's an unwinnable war" | |
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| Coming Home | |
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| Vietnam Veteran-and proud of it | |
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| The best books about the war (an impossible list) | |
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| Summing up: Lessons learned | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at the Conference on Vietnam | |
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| The Politically Incorrect Guide� to the Pentagon Papers | |
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| The Vietnamese View | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |