
Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War
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- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter One - WHY WE WERE IN VIETNAM
- Vietnam 1954-1960 (Nation Building 101)
- The playboy and the priest
- Chapter Two - CAMELOT IT WAS NOT
- Sideshow in Laos: Instructive history ignored
- Vietnam: JFK's godchild
- JFK's big adventure goes sour
- Blaming Diem
- Flaming Buddhists
- The end of Diem
- Chapter Three - LBJ'S WAR
- China Beach Blanket Bingo
- Earlier heroics
- Hey, hey, LBJ, how in the heck did you get us into this mess?
- Air War Vietnam
- Rolling (intermittent with light showers) Thunder, March 1965 to November 1968
- Operation Barrel Roll, December 1964 to March 1973
- Operation Steel Tiger, April 1965 to November 1968
- Tet
- Chapter Four - UNHERALDED VICTORY, 1968-1973
- The reason why
- The missing (largely successful) years
- Abrams, Bunker, Colby: The team that could
- The old order changeth
- The Phoenix program
- The handoff to Nixon-no more Mr. Nice Guy
- The "secret" bombing
- The Cambodian "Invasion"
- Nixon delivers
- The 1972 Christmas bombing
- Endgame
- Chapter Five - THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
- "Oh, come on, were the Commies really that bad?"
- "Jane, you ignorant slut." (Actually Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin on Saturday ...
- Not the VFW
- Six great myths of the anti-war movement
- "The government of South Vietnam is corrupt and unworthy of our support"
- "The Vietnam War is a civil war that needs to be decided by its own people"
- "The American people don't support the war"
- "The Vietnam war is a proxy war between the capitalist West and the Communist East"
- "The war is immoral"
- "It's an unwinnable war"
- Chapter Six - COMING HOME
- Vietnam Veteran-and proud of it
- The best books about the war (an impossible list)
- Summing up: Lessons learned
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- NOTES
- INDEX
- Copyright Page
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