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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 | |