On strategy : a critical analysis of the Vietnam War
Summer's inspired analysis of America's war in Vietnam answers the most pressing questions remaining from that terrible conflict more than a decade before Robert McNamara's painful admissions
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Part 1. The Environment. Ch. 1 The national will: the people
Ch. 2 The national will: the Congress
Ch. 3 Friction: the people
Ch. 4 Friction: the bureaucracy
Ch. 5 Friction: the danger
Ch. 6 Friction: the doctrine
Ch. 7 Friction: the dogma
Part 2. The Engagement. Ch. 8 Tactics, grand tactics and strategy
Ch. 9 The objective
Ch. 10 The offensive
Ch. 11 Mass, economy of force, and maneuver
Ch. 12 Unity of command
Ch. 13 Security and suprise
Ch. 14 Simplicity
Ch. 15 Coalition warfare