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Foreword | |
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America's Entry into the Morass (1950-1969) | |
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Evolution of a Strategy | |
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What the Nixon Administration Found | |
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Groping for a Strategy: The North Vietnamese Offensive and the Bombing of Cambodia | |
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Attempts at a Diplomatic Outcome | |
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Peace Initiatives | |
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The Beginning of Troop Withdrawals | |
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A Secret Meeting | |
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Another Reassessment | |
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The Unpacifiable Doves | |
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A Strategy Emerges | |
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Secret Negotiations and a Widening War | |
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The Secret Negotiations | |
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Special Advisor Le Duc Tho and the First Round of Talks | |
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Laos Interlude | |
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The Overthrow of Sihanouk | |
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Another Major Troop Withdrawal | |
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The Attack on North Vietnamese Sanctuaries | |
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The Cambodian Incursion | |
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The Domestic Travail | |
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The Balance Sheet | |
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Diplomacy and Strategy: From a Cease-fire Proposal to the Interdiction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail | |
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Madame Binh's Eight Points | |
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The Setting of a Strategy | |
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The Laos Operation | |
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Lam Son 719: The Military Operation | |
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Braving Domestic Opposition | |
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The Negotiations Are Resumed | |
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The South Vietnamese Presidential Election | |
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Revealing the Secret Talks | |
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Hanoi Throws the Dice: The Vietnam Spring Offensive | |
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Diplomatic Maneuvers | |
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What Strategy? | |
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The Showdown | |
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The May 2 Secret Meeting | |
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The Mining and Bombing of North Vietnam | |
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The Summit in the Balance | |
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From Stalemate to Breakthrough | |
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Testing the Stalemate | |
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A Visit to Saigon | |
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Interlude: Meetings of September 15 and 27 | |
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The Breakthrough: The October 8 Meeting | |
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The Troubled Road to Peace | |
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Interlude in Paris | |
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Consultation with Thieu | |
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Rumblings | |
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Showdown with Thieu | |
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The Journey Home | |
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"Peace Is at Hand" | |
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Election Interlude | |
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Haig Visits Saigon Again | |
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The Meetings with Le Duc Tho Resume | |
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The Breakdown of the Negotiations | |
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The Christmas Bombing | |
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Negotiations Resume | |
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The January Round of Negotiations | |
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Thieu Relents | |
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Peace at Last | |
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Postlude | |
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A Visit to Hanoi | |
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Enforcement and Aid | |
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The Thieu Visit | |
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Watergate and Enforcement | |
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The Search for Peace in Cambodia | |
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The Aborted Chinese Mediation | |
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The Negotiations Unravel | |
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Ford and Vietnam | |
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The Strangulation of South Vietnam | |
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Hanoi Resumes the Offensive | |
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The End of the Road | |
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The Collapse of Cambodia | |
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The Myth of the Failure to Negotiate on Cambodia | |
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The Final Collapse | |
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Final Note | |
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The End of Vietnam | |
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The Debate over Evacuation | |
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The Search for a Political Solution | |
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The Evacuation | |
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The Last Day | |
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Epilogue | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Appendix | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |