The Vietnam War

Contents: Part I US Presidents and the Vietnam War: What did Eisenhower tell Kennedy about Indochina? The politics of misperception, Fred I. Greenstein and Richard H. Immerman; Vietnam: Mr Johnson's war - or Mr Eisenhower's?, Edward Cuddy; The mythology surrounding Lyndon Johnson, his advisers and the 1965 decision to escalate the Vietnam War, David M. Barrett; Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall; Differing evaluations of Vietnamization, Scott Sigmund Gartner; Public opinion and foreign policy: the Nixon administration and the pursuit of peace with honor in Vietnam, Andrew Z. Katz; Nixon's nuclear ploy, William Burr and Jeffrey Kimball. Part II Prosecution of the War: To change a war: General Harold K. Johnson and the Provn study, Lewis Sorley; Winning the Vietnam War: Westmoreland's approach in two documents, John M. Carland; Calley's ghost, Phillip Beidler; The attack on Cap Mui Lay, Vietnam, July 1968, Faris R. Kirkland; North Vietnam's final offensive: strategic endgame nonpareil, Merle L. Pribbenow. Part III Tet and Khe Sanh: Khe Sanh - from the perspective of the North Vietnamese communists, Ang Cheng Guan; The meaning of Tet, Victor Davis Hanson; Appropriating Tet, Richard Falk. Part IV Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Why the United States fought in Vietnam, Larry Berman and Stephen R. Routh; 'Dominos', dynamos, and the Vietnam War, Gareth Porter; How we won in Vietnam, Viet D. Dinh; Vietnam in retrospect: could we have won?, Jeffrey Record. Part V Legacies of the Vietnam War: What are the lessons of Vietnam?, David Fromkin and James Chace; Presidential decisionmaking and Vietnam: lessons for strategists, Joseph R. Cerami; Vietnam, American foreign policy, and the uses of history, George Herring; In the shadow of the dragon: doctrine and the US army after Vietnam, Roger J. Spiller; The 'unlessons' of Vietnam, James J. Wirtz; Index.