Anatomy of a War : Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience Book

	Preface
	Introduction	3
Pt. 1	The Origins of the War to 1960
1	Vietnam's Road to Crisis	13
2	The Communist Party until 1945: From Depression to War	22
3	Vietnam: From the August 1945 Revolution to Protracted War	35
4	The Internal World of Vietnamese Communism: Theory and Practice	45
5	The Communist Party's Consolidation of Power	62
6	America's Confrontation with the Limits of World Power, 1946-1960	72
7	South Vietnam to 1959: Origins of the Conflict	80
8	The Communist Party's Dilemma in the South, 1954-1959	97
Pt. 2	The Crisis in South Vietnam and American Intervention, 1961-1965
9	The U.S. Involvement in Vietnam: From Sponsorship to Air War	111
10	The War and Rural Vietnam	126
11	The Challenge of Defining Military Strategies	138
12	The United States, the Revolution, and the Components of Struggle	152
Pt. 3	Total War, 1965-1967, and the Transformation of South Vietnam
13	Escalation and the Frustration of American Politics	163
14	The Continuing Search for Effective Military Strategies	176
15	The Dilemma of the American Way of War	188
16	War and the Transformation of South Vietnamese Society	199
17	Nguyen Van Thieu and the RVN Power Structure	208
18	The Dilemma of Economic Dependency and the RVN	223
19	The Building of the RVN's Army and the Struggle for Rural South Vietnam	231
20	The Character and Consequences of the Two Vietnamese Armies	252
21	The Communist Party's Responses to Total War	264
22	The Economic Impact of the War on the United States	283
23	The Balance of Forces in the War at the End of 1967	293
Pt. 4	The Tet Offensive and the Events of 1968
24	The Tet Offensive	303
25	The Tet Offensive's Impact on Washington	312
26	Assessing the Tet Offensive	327
Pt. 5	War and Diplomacy, 1969-1972
27	The Nixon Administration's Confrontation with Vietnam and the World	341
28	The Crisis of American Military Power	356
29	The Revolution's Military Policy, 1969-1971	368
30	The United States and the RVN: Vietnamization's Contradictions	377
31	The Struggle for a Changing Rural South Vietnam	386
32	The Communist Party's International Strategy	401
33	War on Two Fronts: Diplomacy and Battlefields, 1971-1972	412
34	The Diplomatic Process: Illusions and Realities	431
Pt. 6	The Crisis of the Republic of Vietnam and the End of the War, 1973-1975
35	The Balance of Forces in South Vietnam, Early 1973, and the Impact of the RVN's Policies	457
36	The Nixon Administration's Dilemmas of Power	470
37	Recovery and Response: The Communist Party's Strategy until Mid-1974	476
38	The Deepening Crisis of the RVN Social System	483
39	Saigon and Washington, Mid-1974: The Conjunction of Two Crises	499
40	The Revolution's Perceptions and Plans, Late 1974	513
41	The End of the War	521
	Conclusion	545
	Postscript	559
	Abbreviations Used in Postscript Notes	603
	Sources and Notes	605
	Chronology	653
	Glossary	658
	Index	661