Looking Back on the Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat, and Legacies (Contributions in Military Studies)

Introduction: The Vietnam War--A Look Back, A Look Ahead by William Head Background and Overview Vietnam and Its Wars: An Historical Overview of U.S. Involvement by William Head The Global Dimensions and Legacies of a Brushfire War by Marc Jason Gilbert Decision Making and Policy Makers The Johnson Administration's Conduct of Limited War in Vietnam by George Herring From the Tonkin Gulf to the Persian Gulf: The Devolution of the Senate's Role in War Making by Caroline Ziemke China and the Revisionist Thesis by John Garver The Air War Bombing Our Way Back Home: The Commando Hunt and Menu Campaigns of 1969-1973 by Earl H. Tilford, Jr. Of Demons, Storms, and Thunder: A Preliminary Look at Vietnam's Impact on the Persian Gulf Air Campaign by Mark Clodfelter North Vietnamese Air Defenses During the Vietnam War by Douglas Pike The Ground War If At First You Don't Succeed, Try to Rewrite History: Revisionism and the Vietnam War by John M. Gates Everything is Perfect and Getting Better: The Myths and Measures of the American Ground War in Indochina, 1965-1968 by Larry Cable Legacies The Lessons and Ghosts of Vietnam by Lorenzo Crowell Reflections on the Vietnam War: The Views of a Vietnamese on Vietnamese-American Misconceptions by Bui Diem Selected Bibliography IndexLawrence E. Grinter is the author of 'Looking Back on the Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat, and Legacies (Contributions in Military Studies)', published 1993 under ISBN 9780313288692 and ISBN 0313288690.