The Vietnam War

Abstract

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.