Vietnam in Iraq : Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts (Paperback)

Introduction 1. The Final Chapter? The Iraq War and the End of History 2. The Vietnam Laugh Track 3. Unraveling the Domestic Foreign Policy Consensus: Presidential Rhetoric, American Public Opinion, and the Wars in Vietnam and Iraq 4. Iraq and Vietnam: Military Lessons and Legacies 5. ‘A National Symphony of Theft, Corruption and Bribery': Anatomy of State Building from Iraq to Vietnam 6. "Vietnam", Victory Culture and Iraq: Struggling with Lessons, Constraints and Credibility from Saigon to Falluja 7. Europe’s Vietnam Syndrome: America and the Quagmire of Iraq 8. No More Vietnams: Iraq and the Analogy Conundrum 9. Vietnam and Iraq: Strategy, Exit and Syndrome 10. Falling Dominoes: The United States, Vietnam and the War in Iraq 11. The Iraq and Vietnam Wars: Some Parallels and Connections