Anatomy of a War

by Kolko, Gabriel

• ISBN13: 9781565842182
• ISBN10: 1565842189
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

Kolko's groundbreaking and widely cited study of the Vietnam War, with a new postscript by the author.

Table of Contents

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