ch. 1. Indochina theater: the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1946-89
ch. 2. Why Indochina mattered: American credibility and the Cold War
ch. 3. Inflexible response: the U.S. military and the Vietnam War
ch. 4. Fall of Washington: the domestic politics of the Vietnam War
ch. 5. Disinformation: Vietnam and the folklore of the Antiwar Movement
ch. 6. Credibility gap: the myth of the presidential war
ch. 7. Was the Vietnam War unjust?
ch. 8. Genuine lessons of the Vietnam War.