Abstract
In the large and continually growing body of scholarly literature on the Vietnam War, one subject that remains conspicuously underrepresented is the international dimension of the conflict. Scholars have tended to discuss the war in a vacuum, with the emphasis almost exclusively on events as perceived in Washington, Hanoi, and, to a lesser degree, Saigon.1 Few have sought to study it in a broader context either by examining Vietnam developments against the background of America's regional and global policies or by exploring the Vietnam policies of other governments and the reaction to those policies by the principal belligerents.2 That such a vacuum should exist is in many ways understandable, given that so much foreign documentary material remains unavailable, especially for the key post-1965 escalation period. But the source cupboard is not as bare as some scholars might think; sufficient material is available to enable historians to begin looking at the war through a wider lens.3
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