| Description |
x, 523 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Trailing the Beast -- 2. Legacies of Resistance: Vietnamese Nationalism against the Chinese and French -- 3. The Permanent War Begins: 1940-1954 -- 4. America Comes to Vietnam: Installing the Mechanisms, 1954-1964 -- 5. Technowar at Ground Level: Search-and-Destroy as Assembly Line -- 6. The Tet Offensive and the Production of a Double Reality -- 7. Forced Draft: Urbanization and the Consumer Society Come to Vietnam -- 8. Pacification War in the Countryside -- 9. Air War over North Vietnam: Bombing as Communication -- 10. Structural Dynamics of Escalation in Theory and Practice, 1966-1967 -- 11. The Structure of Air Operations -- 12. The Redistribution of Air War: Laos, 1968-1973 -- 13. Closing Out the War: Cambodia and North Vietnam, 1969-1973 -- 14. Finding the Light at the End of the Tunnel -- 15. Surveying the Wreckage: The Limits of Conventional Criticism and the Reproduction of Technowar -- Appendix. The Warrior's Knowledge: Social Stratification and the Book Corpus of Vietnam |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [477]-507 |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
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| LC no. |
86014144 |
| ISBN |
0871130637 |
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0871137992 |
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