Taking the strain US and Communist Viewpoints on the South as War Begins Between Two Giants Political and Military Action in the South A Transition Achieved The trial of battle in the South, 1965-67 US Strategy and Action, 1965-67 Hanoi and COSVN: The Military Line The Other Side of the US Effort: Pacification The Southern Regime Moves Towards Stabilisation Pacification, the Peasants and the Front NFL Organization Under Pressure Revolutionary Strategy Under Pressure The Situation on the Eve of Tet 1968 The Tet offensive and its aftermath The Meaning of the Offensive The Tet Events and May Follow-Up Was the First Half of 1968 A Turning-Point? The Second Half of 1968: the Antagonists' Perspectives Revolutionaries in Search of a New Position Vietnamization: Fighting and Pacifying The Revolution Settles into a New Track A Shift in Political Strategy Retrospect: A Key Strategical Shift The war takes a new shape Revolutionary Strategy and the Cambodian Challenge The Double Effort of the US Planners Fighting an Indochinese War the Revolutionary Political Effort The Saigon Regime's Search for Stability, 1970-72 The Saigon regime stands alone Late 1972: The Balance of Forces The Struggle in Paris An Impossible Enforcement: The Military Side of the Paris Agreement the Paris Agreement and Political Struggle The RVN as a Reforming Regime The final victory The Great Spring Victory Campaigns Between Zero and Infinity State Socialism - Complete or Qualified Failure? The RVN as a Post-Colonial Capitalist State Some Final Remarks Tables 2.1 US Economic Aid to the RVN, 1965-67 2.2 Composition of RVN revenue, 1965-67 2.3 NFL actions against local officials and others, 1965-67 2.4 'Open arms' defections, 1965-67 (1000s) 3.1 Defections from the revolutionary side, 1967-69 3.2 PLAF/PA battalion strength, 1967-69 3.3 PLAF/PA actions, 1967-69 4.1 Vietnamization: the Withdrawal of US Personnel 4.2 NFL Political Murders and Kidnappings, 1967-72 4.3 Registered Strikes in the RVN, 1969-73 4.4 US Economic Aid, 1968-72 4.5 RVN Food Crop Production and Rice Imports, 1965-74 5.1 US Economic Aid, 1973-5 Maps South Viet Nam provinces, 1965 Communist Military Regions
