Anatomy of a war: Vietnam, the United States, and the modern historical experience

Pt. 1. The Origins of the War to 1960

1. Vietnam's Road to Crisis

2. The Communist Party until 1945: From Depression to War

3. Vietnam: From the August 1945 Revolution to Protracted War

4. The Internal World of Vietnamese Communism: Theory and Practice

5. The Communist Party's Consolidation of Power

6. America's Confrontation with the Limits of World Power, 1946-1960

7. South Vietnam to 1959: Origins of the Conflict

8. The Communist Party's Dilemma in the South, 1954-1959

Pt. 2. The Crisis in South Vietnam and American Intervention, 1961-1965

9. The U.S. Involvement in Vietnam: From Sponsorship to Air War

10. The War and Rural Vietnam

11. The Challenge of Defining Military Strategies

12. The United States, the Revolution, and the Components of Struggle

Pt. 3. Total War, 1965-1967, and the Transformation of South Vietnam

13. Escalation and the Frustration of American Politics

14. The Continuing Search for Effective Military Strategies

15. The Dilemma of the American Way of War

16. War and the Transformation of South Vietnamese Society

17. Nguyen Van Thieu and the RVN Power Structure

18. The Dilemma of Economic Dependency and the RVN

19. The Building of the RVN's Army and the Struggle for Rural South Vietnam

20. The Character and Consequences of the Two Vietnamese Armies

21. The Communist Party's Responses to Total War

22. The Economic Impact of the War on the United States

23. The Balance of Forces in the War at the End of 1967

Pt. 4. The Tet Offensive and the Events of 1968

24. The Tet Offensive

25. The Tet Offensive's Impact on Washington

26. Assessing the Tet Offensive

Pt. 5. War and Diplomacy, 1969-1972

27. The Nixon Administration's Confrontation with Vietnam and the World

28. The Crisis of American Military Power

29. The Revolution's Military Policy, 1969-1971

30. The United States and the RVN: Vietnamization's Contradictions

31. The Struggle for a Changing Rural South Vietnam

32. The Communist Party's International Strategy

33. War on Two Fronts: Diplomacy and Battlefields, 1971-1972

34. The Diplomatic Process: Illusions and Realities

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

36. The Nixon Administration's Dilemmas of Power

37. Recovery and Response: The Communist Party's Strategy until Mid-1974

38. The Deepening Crisis of the RVN Social System

39. Saigon and Washington, Mid-1974: The Conjunction of Two Crises

40. The Revolution's Perceptions and Plans, Late 1974

41. The End of the War.