Foreword / James Webb -- The War as a Culturally Determined Product -- The Communist Position and Assessments -- The War in Retrospect -- Constraints and Misreadings -- Military Decision-Making in Hanoi and the Air War -- The Tonkin Gulf Incidents and the War at Sea -- Turning Point: The 1968 Tet Offensive -- Was Vietnam "Unwinnable"? -- "Going for the Guts" -- Alternative Strategies -- Were Negotiations Possible? -- An Assessment of ARVN -- Soviet and Communist Chinese Participation in the Vietnam War -- The Final Outcome -- The Last American Fighting Man to Leave Vietnam -- The Aftermath and Vietnamese-American Relations -- The POW-MIA Question -- The Necessity for Democratization and Integration -- Some Generalizations -- A Parting Shot
