Abrams, Creighton W.; Vietnam War strategy and
Acheson, Dean
Adams, Sam
Afghanistan war, and Vietnam syndrome
Agent Orange, and Vietnam veterans
Agnew, Spiro T.
Aiken, George
Airmobile. See First Cavalry Division
Allen, George
American power: democratization and; neoconservatives and; Vietnam War and
LIMITS OF: Cold War and; Iraq War and; Nixon and; presidents and; Tet Offensive and; Vietnam War and
American Revolution, and Vietnamese revolution
Annam (central Vietnam)
antiwar demonstrations; American media and; Americans’ response to; Cambodia invasion and; at Kent State; of Mayday Tribe; moratorium on; Siege at the Pentagon as; of Vietnam Veterans Against the War
antiwar movement: American media and; Americans’ response to; Cambodia invasion and; civil disobedience and; college students and; Communism and; Congress and; Democratic National Convention (1968) and; domestic unrest and; draft and; FBI agent provocateurs and; growth of; hippies and; intelligence agencies and; Kent State and; LBJ and; moratorium and; Nixon and; North Vietnam and; North Vietnam bombing and; presidential election (1968) and; problems in; race and; SDS and; tactics of; Tet Offensive and; University of Michigan teach-in and; Vietnam policy and; Vietnamese Communist Party and; Watergate scandal and; withdrawal from Vietnam and
areas of operations (AOs)
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN); deficiencies of; NLF and; South Vietnam instability and; U.S. military and; women in; Women’s Armed Forces Corps of, See also South Vietnam: military of
Asian Communist movements, and post–World War II U.S.
Associated State of Vietnam. See also State of Vietnam
attrition: atrocities and; battlefield isolation and; body counts and; bombing and; border control and; changed meaning of, through history; main force combat and; pacification and; problems with; U.S. military commanders and; Vietnam War assessments and; as Vietnam War strategy; Westmoreland and; World War I and
August Revolution; dark side of; Ho Chi Minh and; Japanese occupation of Vietnam and; U.S. and; World War II and. See also Vietnam: revolution in
Ball, George
Bao Dai; Diem regime and; French war in Vietnam and; “solution,”
Bay of Pigs, invasion at
Berman, Larry
Berry, Sidney S., Jr.
Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA)
Binh Xuyen
boat people
body counts: atrocities and; attrition strategy and; damage assessment problems with; Vietnam War assessments and; Westmoreland and
bombing. See Nixon, Richard: bombing by; North Vietnam: bombing of, by LBJ; North Vietnam: bombing of, by Nixon
Bosnia, war in
Bowles, Chester
Brezhnev, Leonid
Broyles, Bill
BTA. See Bilateral Trade Agreement
Buchwald, Art
Buddhists: burning suicides of; in Cambodia; Diem regime vs.; Vietnamese Communist Party and
Bundy, McGeorge
Bundy, William P.
Bunker, Ellsworth
Bush, George H. W.: MIA/POW accountability and; Road Map of, to diplomatic relations with Vietnam; Vietnam and; Vietnam syndrome and; Vietnam veterans and; Vietnam War aftermath and. See also Persian Gulf War; presidents
Bush, George W.; doctrine of; Iraq War and; neoconservatives and; September 11, 2001, attacks and; Vietnam syndrome and; Vietnam War analysis of; war on terrorism and. See also presidents
C. Turner Joy (destroyer)
Cambodia: bombing of; Buddhists in; China and; CIA and; Communist Party in; coup (1970) in; as Democratic Kampuchea; domino theory and; Fishhook area of; French colonialism and; Geneva Conference (1954) and; genocide in; Khmer Issaraks in; Khmer Rouge in; Khmer Serei in; Kissinger and; LBJ and; Lon Nol and; nationalism in; Nixon and; Operation Menu and; Sihanouk and; South Vietnam and; U.S. and; U.S. military incursions into; Vietnam invasion of; in Vietnam War; Vietnamese Communists and. See also Indochina
INVASION OF; BY NIXON; antiwar movement and; Kent State and; NLF and
Cao Dai (religious sect)
Card, Andrew, Jr.
Carter, Jimmy: MIA/POW accountability and; pardon of draft offenders by; Vietnam and; Vietnam War aftermath and. See also presidents
Carver, George
Castro, Fidel
Catholics, in South Vietnam
Catton, Phillip
Cav. See First Cavalry Division
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Cambodia and; Diem regime and; “Implications of an Unfavorable Outcome in Vietnam” by; Laos and; PRUs and; Vietnam War assessments by; “The Vietnamese Communists’ Will to Persist” by; Village Defense Program of
Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN)
Chaisson, John
Chen Geng
children: NLF and; South Vietnam urbanization and
China: Cambodia and; DRV and; early Vietnam history and; French war in Vietnam and; Geneva Conference (1954) and; Nixon and; precolonial Vietnam and; Soviet Union, Vietnam, and; Soviet Union and; SRV and; U.S., Soviet Union, and; U.S., Vietnam, and; U.S. and; Vietnam and; Vietnamese women and
China Beach (television program)
Chinese, in South Vietnam
Chinese Communist Party, and Ho Chi Minh
“Christmas Bombing” (Operation Linebacker II)
Christopher, Warren
Church, Frank
CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency
civil rights, and LBJ
Civilian Irregular Defense Groups
Civilian Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS); NLF and; Phoenix program of; Village Self-Development Program of; village war and
class, and the draft
Clifford, Clark; Vietnam War assessments by
Clinton, Bill: Bosnian war and; Kosovo and; MIA/POW accountability and; Rwanda and; U.S.–Vietnam relations and; Vietnam and; Vietnam recognition by; Vietnam syndrome and; Vietnam veterans and. See also presidents
Cochinchina
Cohen, Paul
Colby, William
Cold War: American power limits and; analysis of; containment strategy and; ending of, and Vietnam War lessons; French war in Vietnam and; JFK and; LBJ and; neoconservatives and; origins of; U.S., Vietnam, and; U.S.–French war in Vietnam and; Vietnam War and; Wise Men and
college students: antiwar movement and; Kent State and; McCarthy and; SDS and; University of Michigan teach-in and
Collins, J. Lawton
Combined Action Platoons
Communism: antiwar movement and; Eisenhower, Southeast Asia, and; of Ho Chi Minh; JFK vs.; LBJ vs.; Nixon vs.; presidential advisers and; U.S., Indochina, and; Vietnamese society, Confucianism, Marxism, and. See also containment strategy; Vietnam: Communism in
Communist nations, U.S. and aggression of
Communist Party. See Indochinese Communist Party; Vietnamese Communist Party
Communists: Asian; Chinese; Laotian. See also Vietnam: Communists in
Confucianism: Ho Chi Minh and; in precolonial Vietnam; Vietminh and; in Vietnam history; Vietnamese revolution and; Vietnamese society and; Vietnamese women and; villages and
“Confucianism and Marxism” (Vien)
Congress: American media and Vietnam hearings of; antiwar movement and; Democratic National Convention (1968) and; Ford and; French war in Vietnam and; LBJ and; Nixon and; North Vietnam bombing and; Vietnam civil war and; Vietnam War outcome and; Vietnam War response of; War Powers Resolution of
containment strategy; Cold War and; Eisenhower and; JFK and; LBJ and; liberal-realist analysis of; origin of; U.S., Vietnam, and; in U.S. policymaking; Vietnam War analysis and
continuity thesis
Contras
Cooper, Chester
CORDS. See Civilian Operations and Revolutionary Development Support
COSVN. See Central Office for South Vietnam
counterinsurgency: American advisers and; American theories on; Kennedy administration and
Cronkite, Walter
Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
Daley, Richard J.
Dallek, Robert
damage assessment: body counts and problems with; ground operations problems with; H&I fire and difficulty of
dau tranh (integrated political and military struggle)
Davidson, Phillip C.
“dawks,” on Vietnam War
Dean, Arthur
decent-interval strategy
Defense Intelligence Agency
de Gaulle, Charles
Delbrueck, Hans
Democratic Kampuchea. See also Cambodia
Democratic National Convention (1968): Americans’ response to; antiwar movement and
Democratic Party, fracturing of, and LBJ
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV); China and; French war in Vietnam and; post–World War II independence and; Soviet Union and; Vietnam War victory and. See also French war in Vietnam; North Vietnam; Vietnam War
democratization: American power and; Iraq War and; military power limits as instrument of
DePuy, William E.
Dienbienphu: Eisenhower and; French war in Vietnam, Geneva Conference (1954), and; French war in Vietnam and
Dillon, C. Douglas
diplomacy: estrangement/reconciliation of U.S. and Vietnam and; LBJ and; Nixon and; Vietnam War and
domino theory; Eisenhower and; Nixon and; Southeast Asia and; U.S. policymaking and; Vietnam and
doves, on Vietnam War
draft; antiwar movement and; class/race and; offenders, Carter’s pardon of
DRV. See Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Dulles, Allen (CIA director)
Dulles, John Foster (secretary of state)
Duong Quynh Hoa
Easter Offensive
ecocide, and South Vietnam urbanization
economy. See socioeconomics; United States: economic problems of; Vietnam: economy of
EDC. See European Defense Community
Eisenhower, Dwight D.: containment strategy and; Diem regime and; Dienbienphu and; domino theory and; France, Diem regime, and; French war in Vietnam and; JFK and; Laos and; Nixon and; Vietnam policy of
Elliott, David
Ellsberg, Daniel
Ely, Paul
enclave strategy
European Defense Community (EDC)
Eye Corps. See I Corps
family, Vietnamese women and
Faure, Edgar
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): agent provocateurs of, and antiwar movement; wiretapping by, and Nixon
fiction, and Vietnam War
films, and Vietnam War
Fire in the Lake (FitzGerald)
First Cavalry Division (Airmobile)
First Indochina War. See French war in Vietnam
FitzGerald, Frances
Flags of Our Fathers (Broyles)
force-deployment strategy
Ford, Gerald R.; Congress and; Kissinger and; Vietnam civil war and; Vietnam War and. See also presidents
Forrest Gump (film)
Fortas, Abe
France: Eisenhower, Diem regime, and; U.S., Indochina independence, and. See also de Gaulle, Charles; French colonialism; French war in Vietnam
Franks, Lawrence
Freedman, Lawrence
French colonialism: Cambodia and; in Indochina; Japanese occupation of Vietnam and; Laos and; resurgence of, during Vietnamese independence; U.S. views of; Vietnam and coming of; Vietnam before; Vietnam history of; Vietnamese resistance against; Vietnamese revolution against; Vietnamese society and
French war in Vietnam; Bao Dai and; China and; Cold War and; Congress and; dénouement and legacies of; Dienbienphu, Geneva Conference (1954), and; Dienbienphu and; DRV in; early years of; Eisenhower, Geneva Conference (1954), and; Eisenhower and; First Indochina War as; Great Britain and; Ho Chi Minh and; Korean War and; Laos and; Nixon and; South Vietnam and; Soviet Union and; strategy in; tensions and ambiguities in; transition from, to American war; Truman and; U.S., Cold War, and; U.S. and; Vietminh and; Vietnam War and; Vietnamese Communism and; Vietnamese revolutionary nationalism and; weariness with, and negotiations
Fulbright, J. William
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Galloway, Joseph
Gandhi, Mohandas
General Offensive. See Tet Offensive
Geneva Accord/Conference/Agreements (1954): Cambodia and; China and; French war in Vietnam, Dienbienphu, and; French war in Vietnam, Eisenhower, and; Laos and; north–south division of Vietnam and; Soviet Union and; U.S. policymaking and
Geneva Accord/Conference/Agreement (1962)
Gia Long
Gibson, James William
Goldberg, Arthur
Goldwater, Barry
Goodman, Allan
Goodpaster, Andrew J.
Government of (South) Vietnam (GVN); corruption in; election (1967) and; inefficiency of; Vietnam policy toward; Vietnamese Communist Party infiltration of; villages and; war against NLF by. See also Army of the Republic of Vietnam; South Vietnam: military of
Great Britain, and French war in Vietnam
Great Society
Green Berets
Green Berets, The (novel and film)
Greene, Wallace
grunts (foot soldiers)
guerrillas: of NLF; of Vietnamese Communist Party; villages and
Gulf of Tonkin incident
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; rescinding of
Gulf War. See Persian Gulf War
GVN. See Government of (South) Vietnam
Haig, Alexander
Halberstam, David
Haldeman, H. R. (Bob)
Hanoi. See also Democratic Republic of Vietnam; North Vietnam
harassment and interdiction (H&I)
Harkins, Paul
“Harnessing the Revolution in South Vietnam” (Vann)
Harriman, W. Averell
hawks, on Vietnam War: Goldwater as; Nixon as
Hayden, Tom
Heaven and Earth (film)
Helms, Richard
heroin trade, CIA and Laos
Herring, George
Hess, Gary
H&I. See harassment and interdiction
hippies: American media and; antiwar movement and
History in Three Keys (Cohen)
Hmong
Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Ai Quoc); August Revolution and; Chinese Communist Party and; Communism of; Confucianism and; early life of; French colonialism and; French war in Vietnam and; Stalin and; U.S. and; Vietnam War and; Vietnamese Communism and; Vietnamese independence and; women in Vietnam War and. See also Vietminh
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Ho Chi Minh Trail; Cambodia bombing and; women and
Hoa Hao (religious sect)
Hue
Humphrey, Hubert H.
I Corps (Eye Corps)
ICP. See Indochinese Communist Party
“Implications of an Unfavorable Outcome in Vietnam” (CIA)
“Indian Country,”
Indochina: French colonialism in; independence of, and U.S. and France; U.S., Communism, and. See also Cambodia; Laos; Vietnam
Indochina Union
Indochinese Communist Party (ICP); early history of
Iraq War: American power limits and; democratization and; George W. Bush and; Vietnam syndrome and; Vietnam War analysis and; Vietnam War comparisons to; Vietnam War lessons and; Vietnam War response in U.S. and; Vietnam War scholarship and. See also Persian Gulf War
Jamieson, Neil
Japan: and Eisenhower Vietnam policy; occupation of Vietnam by
JCS. See Joint Chiefs of Staff
JFK. See Kennedy, John F.
Johnson, Lyndon B. (LBJ); advisers of; antiwar movement and; Asian land war of; Cambodia and; civil rights and; Cold War and; on Communism; Congress and; containment strategy and; Democratic Party fracturing and; diplomacy and; domestic unrest and; foreign policy briefing (January 22, 1965) of; Great Society of; Gulf of Tonkin incident and; JFK, Vietnam, and; Joint Chiefs and; McNamara and; Nixon and; “October Surprise,” Nixon, and; peace negotiations and; personality of; presidential election (1968) and; RFK and; South Vietnam instability and; South Vietnam support by; Tet Offensive and; Thieu and; troop commitments and; U.S. economic problems and; Vietnam War, domestic policy, and; Vietnam War and; Vietnam War de-escalation and; Vietnam War doubts of; Vietnam War escalation and; Vietnam War pivotal year (1968) and; Vietnam War response in U.S. and; Vietnam War warnings ignored by; village war and; war on poverty of; Wise Men and. See also North Vietnam: bombing of, by LBJ; presidents
Joint Chiefs of Staff (Joint Chiefs, JCS); LBJ and; McNamara and; North Vietnam bombing and
Jorden, William J.
Kaiser, David
Kennedy, John F. (JFK): American advisers in Vietnam and; American media and; assassination of, and Vietnam War; Cold War and; on Communism; containment strategy and; coup against Diem regime (1963) and; Cuban Missile Crisis and; Diem regime support by; Eisenhower and; “exceptionalism” of; Laos and; LBJ, Vietnam, and; Nixon and; peace negotiations and; Vietnam and; Vietnam policy of; withdrawal from Vietnam, plan of
Kennedy, Robert F. (RFK); assassination of; LBJ and; peace negotiations and; presidential election (1968) and; Vietnam policy criticism by
Kennedy’s Wars (Freedman)
Kent State University
Kerry, John
Khe Sanh
Khmer Issaraks
Khmer Rouge
Khmer Serei
Khrushchev, Nikita
Killing Fields, The (film)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: assassination of; Vietnam War and
Kissinger, Henry A.: Cambodia and; Ford and; Nixon and; peace negotiations and; Vietnam War assessment by; Vietnam War outcome and
Kolko, Gabriel
Komer, Robert
Korean War; French war in Vietnam and; Truman and; Vietnam War and
Kosovo
Kosygin, Alexei
Kovic, Ron
Laird, Melvin
Land to the Tiller (LTT)
Laniel, Joseph
Lansdale, Edward G.
Lao Dong. See also Vietnamese Communist Party
Lao Issara
Laos; bombing of; CIA and; civil war in; Communists in; coups (1959/1960) in; domino theory and; Eisenhower and; French colonialism and; in French war in Vietnam; Geneva Conference (1954) and; Geneva Conference (1962) and; heroin trade, CIA, and; Hmong in; JFK and; Lao Issara in; nationalism in; North Vietnam and; Pathet Lao in; South Vietnam invasion of; U.S. and; Vang Pao and; in Vietnam War. See also Indochina
Laos Accord (1962)
LBJ. See Johnson, Lyndon B.
Le Duan
Le Duc Tho
Le dynasty
Le Loi
legitimists
LeMay, Curtis
Lenin, Vladimir
Leninism, and Vietnamese Communist Party
Lewy, Guenter
liberal-realist analysis
Lind, Michael
Lippman, Walter
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.
Logevall, Fredrik
Lon Nol
LTT. See Land to the Tiller
MAAG. See Military Assistance Advisory Group
MACV. See Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
Maddox (destroyer)
main force combat: attrition strategy and; ground operations damage assessment problems and; Vietnam War strategy and
Manila Pact (Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty)
Mansfield, Mike
Mao Zedong
Marr, David
Marshall, George
Marxism: Marxist/neo-Marxist Vietnam War analysis; Vietnamese revolution and; Vietnamese society, Confucianism, and
M*A*S*H (film and television program)
May, Ernest
McCain, John
McCarthy, Eugene; college students and
McCloy, John J.
McConnell, John P.
McDonald, David
McGovern, George
McHale, Shawn
McNamara, Robert; Joint Chiefs and; LBJ and; stabilization proposal of; Vietnam War doubts of
McNaughton, John T.
McPherson, Harry
media: antiwar demonstrations and; antiwar movement and; congressional hearings and; exposé of Vietnam policy by; hippies and; JFK and; Nixon vs.; Vietnam War outcome and; Vietnam War response in U.S. and; Vietnam War response of; Watergate scandal and
Mendès-France, Pierre
missing in action (MIA)/prisoners of war (POW): Carter and; Clinton and; George H. W. Bush and; Nixon and; North Vietnam and; Reagan and; release of POWs; Vessey and
military. See Army of the Republic of Vietnam; North Vietnamese Army; Vietnam War: military in; Vietnamese Communist Party: military of
Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG)
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV); force-deployment strategy of; parallel wars concept of; Vietnam War strategy and
military power limits, as instrument of democratization
military theory
Ministry of Rural Construction
moderates, on Vietnam War
Moyar, Mark
Murphy, Robert
Mus, Paul
My–Diem regime. See also South Vietnam: Diem regime in
My Lai massacre
National Liberation Front (NLF); ARVN and; cadres of; children and; deficiencies of, on battlefield; equipment of; guerrillas of; GVN forces and; hamlets and; intelligence network of; peasants and; PLAF and; religion and; rise of South Vietnam insurgency and; South Vietnam military and; Tet Offensive and; Vietcong as; Vietnamese Communist Party and; villages and; war strategy of; women and; Women’s Liberation Association of. See also Vietcong; Vietnamese Communist Party: military of
WAR AGAINST: attack on VCI and; Cambodia invasion and; CORDS and; GVN and; Phoenix program and; U.S. military and; in villages; Westmoreland and
National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM): NSAM; NSAM
nationalism: in Cambodia; in Laos. See also Vietnam: nationalism in
NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Navarre, Henri
neoconservatives: American power and; Cold War and; George W. Bush and; September 11, 2001, attacks and; U.S. policymaking and; Vietnam syndrome and; war on terrorism and; world dangers and
Neustadt, Richard
Ngo Dinh Diem; assassination of; profile of
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame
Nguyen Ai Quoc. See Ho Chi Minh
Nguyen Be
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen Duc Thang
Nguyen dynasty
Nguyen Hue Offensive (1972)
Nguyen Khac Vien
Nguyen Thi Binh
Nguyen Thi Dinh
Nguyen Van Thieu; LBJ and; Nixon and; village war and
Nicaragua
Nixon, Richard M.; advisers of; American media vs.; American power limits and; antiwar movement and; Cambodia and; Cambodia invasion and; China and; on Communism; Congress and; domino theory and; Eisenhower and; FBI wiretapping/illegal acts of; French war in Vietnam and; Kissinger and; LBJ and; linkage diplomacy and; “madman theory” of; “October Surprise,” LBJ, and; peace negotiations and; presidential election (1968) and; presidential election (1972) and; psychology of; resignation of, from office; Silent Majority speech of; Tet Offensive and; Thieu and; troop withdrawals and; U.S. economic problems and; Vietnam policy of; Vietnam War and; Vietnam War de-escalation and; Vietnam War escalation and; as Vietnam War hawk; Vietnam War outcome and; Vietnam War response in U.S. and; Vietnam War strategy of; Vietnamization and; village war and; Watergate scandal and; withdrawal from Vietnam and. See also presidents
ADMINISTRATION OF: decent-interval strategy of; MIA/POW accountability and; reasonable-interval strategy of; South Vietnam invasion of Laos and; two-part approach to Vietnam War of
BOMBING BY: of Cambodia; of Laos; in Operation Duck Hook; in Operation Menu; peace negotiations and threats of; of South Vietnam. See also North Vietnam: bombing of, by Nixon
Nixon Doctrine. See also Vietnamization
NLF. See National Liberation Front
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
North Vietnam: air war and; antiwar movement and; civil war and; Diem regime vs.; DRV as; Easter Offensive and; interdiction copings of; Laos and; MIA/POW accountability and; peace negotiations and; protracted war doctrine of; as resilient enemy; South Vietnam precolonial differences with; Soviet Union and; strategy of; Tet Offensive and; Vietnam War response in U.S. and; women in Vietnam War and; Workers Party of. See also Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Hanoi; Tet Offensive; Vietnamese Communist Party
BOMBING OF, BY LBJ: antiwar movement and; border control and; civilian “collateral damage” deaths and; Congress and; effects of; failures of; Joint Chiefs and; in Operation Rolling Thunder; peace negotiations and; politics/military choices over; troop commitments and; U.S. policymaking and; as Vietnam War escalation; Vietnam War response in U.S. and
BOMBING OF, BY NIXON: in Operation Linebacker; Vietnamization and
North Vietnamese Army (NVA), women in. See also People’s Army of Vietnam
NSAM. See National Security Action Memorandum
NVA. See North Vietnamese Army
O/B. See order of battle
O’Brien, Tim
“October Surprise,”
Oglesby, Carl
On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War (Summers)
Open Door Policy
Operation Breakfast
Operation Cedar Falls
Operation Duck Hook
Operation Junction City
Operation Lam Son
Operation Linebacker I
Operation Linebacker II (“Christmas Bombing”)
Operation Menu: Cambodia bombing in; Operation Breakfast in; Operation Lunch in
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Vulture
OPLAN 34A
order of battle (O/B); assessment dispute over
pacification; attrition strategy and; H&I fire and; measuring progress problems of; RD and; Vietnam War assessments and; as Vietnam War strategy; Vietnamization and; village war and; villages and
Palmer, Bruce
Paris Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam (1973). See also Paris Peace Accords
Paris Peace Accords
Pathet Lao; takeover of Laos by; Vietminh and
Paul IV (pope)
PAVN. See People’s Army of Vietnam
peace negotiations. See Vietnam War: peace negotiations
Pentagon: PROVN by; Siege at the; Vietnam War assessments by
Pentagon Papers; Watergate scandal and
People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN); Nguyen Hue Offensive of; Vietnamese Communist Party military and. See also North Vietnamese Army
People’s Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF); NLF and. See also Vietcong
Persian Gulf War: Vietnam syndrome and; Vietnam War and
Pham Van Dong
Phan Boi Chau
Phnom Penh
Phoenix program: criticism of; PRUs in; war against NLF and
Pigneau de Béhaine, Pierre Joseph
Pike Committee
PLAF. See People’s Liberation Armed Forces
Platoon (film)
Podhoretz, Norman
poetry, and Vietnam War
Pol Pot
Poland
Popkin, Samuel
popular music, and Vietnam War
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
poverty: LBJ war on. See also Great Society
Powell, Colin
Powell Doctrine
presidential advisers
CIVILIAN: Communism and; divisions/debates among LBJ; divisions/debates among Nixon; of LBJ. See also United States: foreign policy of; United States: Vietnam policy of
MILITARY: of JFK; of LBJ
presidential elections: of 1964; of 1972; of 1976; of 1992; of 2004; Vietnam War and
OF 1968: antiwar movement and; Democratic National Convention and; LBJ, Nixon, “October Surprise,” and; LBJ and; Nixon and; RFK and; Vietnam War and
presidents: American power limits and; culpability of, for Vietnam War; Vietnam policy of; Vietnam War history distortion by; Vietnam War options of. See also specific presidents
PRG. See Provisional Revolutionary Government
Print and Power (McHale)
prisoners of war. See missing in action (MIA)/prisoners of war (POW)
Program for the Pacification and Long-Term Development of South Vietnam, The (PROVN; Pentagon)
Project Beefup
Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs)
Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG)
PROVN. See Program for the Pacification and Long-Term Development of South Vietnam, The
PRUs. See Provincial Reconnaissance Units
PTSD. See post-traumatic stress disorder
quagmire thesis
Quiet American, The (novel and film)
Quindlen, Anna
race: antiwar movement and; draft and; Vietnam veterans and; Vietnam War and
Radford, Arthur
RD. See revolutionary development
Reagan, Ronald: MIA/POW accountability and; Vietnam syndrome and; Vietnam veterans and; Vietnam War and. See also presidents
regional conflicts: U.S. policymaking and; Vietnam War lessons for
Reinhart, G. Frederick
religion: NLF and; South Vietnam and; Vietnamese Communist Party and
Republic of Vietnam (RVN): attempt at nation building in; women prisoners of. See also South Vietnam; South Vietnam: Diem regime in
revolutionary development (RD); cadre teams of
revolutionary warfare: NLF and; Vietnamese Communist Party and
RFK. See Kennedy, Robert F.
Rice, Condoleezza
Road to Revolution, The (Ho Chi Minh)
Rogers, William
Romney, George
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rostow, Walt Whitman
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rusk, Dean
Russell, Richard
Russia. See Soviet Union
RVN. See Republic of Vietnam
Rwanda
Saigon; fall of; renaming of, to Ho Chi Minh City; South Vietnam urbanization and; Tet Offensive and. See also South Vietnam
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Scott, James
Scruggs, Jan
SDS. See Students for a Democratic Society
SEATO. See Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Second Indochina War. See Vietnam War
September 11, 2001, attacks: George W. Bush and; neoconservatives and; Vietnam syndrome and
Sharp, Ulysses S. Grant
Sihanouk, Norodom
Silent Majority speech (Nixon)
Smith, Walter Bedell
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV). See also Vietnam
socioeconomics: of South Vietnam; of Vietnamese peasants; of Vietnamese society
Somalia
Son Ngoc Thanh
Souphanouvong
South Vietnam: American advisers in; bombing of; Cambodia and; Catholics in; Chinese in; civil war and; civil war in; counterinsurgency warfare in; elites in; JFK and LBJ deeper commitment to; LBJ and; LTT in; Ministry of Rural Construction of; Nixon and; NLF and rise of insurgency in; North Vietnam precolonial differences with; objectives of, in Vietnam War; peace negotiations and; post–French war in; post–World War II independence problems of; religion and; RVN as; socioeconomics of; State of Vietnam as; Thieu government and village war in; under siege (1961–1965); U.S. nation building in; U.S. policymaking and; U.S. public-relations spin about; Vietnamization and; villages in; weakness of, after Tet Offensive. See also Government of (South) Vietnam; Republic of Vietnam; Saigon
DIEM REGIME IN: Bao Dai and; Buddhists vs.; CIA and; coup (1963) against; Eisenhower, France, and; Eisenhower and; insurgency against; internal unrest and; JFK and; LBJ and; North Vietnam vs.; South Vietnam military and; South Vietnam threat to; Vietcong vs.; Vietminh vs.; Vietnamese Communists vs.; women and
MILITARY OF: Diem regime and; fragmentation of effort by; militias and; NLF and; structure of; U.S. military and; village war and; women and. See also Army of the Republic of Vietnam
URBANIZATION OF; children and; Saigon and; Tet Offensive and; Westmoreland and
Southeast Asia: domino theory and; Eisenhower, Communism, and; postwar politics of; postwar wars in. See also Cambodia; Indochina; Laos; Vietnam
Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty (Manila Pact)
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
Souvanna Phouma
Soviet Union: China, Vietnam, and; China and; collapse of; DRV and; French war in Vietnam and; Geneva Conference (1954) and; North Vietnam and; peace negotiations and; U.S., China, and; U.S., Vietnam, and; U.S. and; Vietnam and. See also Cold War
SRV. See Socialist Republic of Vietnam
stalemate thesis
Stalin, Joseph; Ho Chi Minh and
Steel, Ronald
Stennis, John
Stevenson, Adlai
Stone, Oliver
Strategic Hamlet Program
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Summers, Harry
tactics: of antiwar movement; level of war; Vietnam War strategy and
Tay Son Rebellion
Taylor, Maxwell
television, and Vietnam War
terrorism. See September 11, 2001, attacks; war on terrorism
Tet Offensive; antiwar movement and; LBJ and; limits of American power and; as military blunder; Nixon and; NLF and; North Vietnam and; operations of; peace negotiations and; post– (1969); results of; South Vietnam and; South Vietnam urbanization and; strategy of; U.S. economic problems and; Vietcong and; Vietnam War reevaluation after; Vietnam War response in U.S. and
To Ngoc Van
Tonkin (northern Vietnam)
Tran Van Giau
Tran Van Tra
Triumph Forsaken (Moyar)
Truman, Harry S.; French war in Vietnam and; Korean War and
Truman Doctrine
Trung sisters
Truong Son Strategic Supply Route. See also Ho Chi Minh Trail
U Thant
Understanding Vietnam (Jamieson)
United Action plan/coalition
United States (U.S.): Asian Communist movements and; August Revolution and; Cambodia and; China, Vietnam, and; China and; Cold War, French war in Vietnam, and; Communist nations aggression and; estrangement/reconciliation of, with Vietnam; French war in Vietnam and; Ho Chi Minh and; imperialism of; Indochina, Communism, and; Indochina, France, and; Laos and; misinterpretations about Vietnam and Vietnam War in; post-1930s “nip aggression” assumption of; post–World War II; response of, to world dangers; Soviet Union, China, and; Soviet Union, Vietnam, and; Soviet Union and; trade of, with Vietnam; World War I and. See also American power; Cold War; Vietnam War
DOMESTIC POLICY OF: LBJ Vietnam policy and; LBJ war on poverty. See also Great Society
DOMESTIC POLITICS IN: Vietnam policy and; Vietnam War and
DOMESTIC UNREST IN: antiwar movement and; LBJ and; peace negotiations and
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF: LBJ and; Nixon and; Tet Offensive and; Vietnam War and
FOREIGN POLICY OF: containment strategy and; “credibility,” Vietnam War, and; domino theory and; Geneva Agreements (1954) and; neoconservatives and; North Vietnam bombing and; regional conflicts and; South Vietnam instability and; Vietnam syndrome and; Vietnam War and; war on terrorism and; world dangers and. See also presidential advisers; United States: domestic policy of; United States: Vietnam policy of
MILITARY OF: incursions of, into Cambodia; Vietnam syndrome and
VIETNAM POLICY OF: American media exposé of; antiwar movement and; Cold War and; Congress and; “credibility” and; of ecocide and urbanization; Eisenhower and; goals of; toward GVN; Japan, Eisenhower, and; JFK and; LBJ and; LBJ domestic policy and; LBJ review of; Nixon and; official Washington explanation for; RFK and; South Vietnam and; urbanization as; Vann thesis and. See also presidential advisers; Vietnam War: disengagement from; Vietnam War: escalations of; Vietnam War: strategy of
University of Michigan, teach-in at
U.S. Army Special Forces. See Green Berets
Vang Pao
Vann, John Paul
VCI. See Vietcong infrastructure
Vessey, John
Vientiane
Vietcong; Diem regime vs.; hamlets and; NLF as; Tet Offensive and; Vietminh as. See also National Liberation Front; People’s Liberation Armed Forces; Vietminh
Vietcong infrastructure (VCI), war against NLF and attack on
Vietminh; Confucianism and; Diem regime vs.; French war in Vietnam and; Japanese occupation of Vietnam and; Pathet Lao and; as Vietcong; Vietnamese Communism and. See also Ho Chi Minh; Vietcong
Vietnam: Carter and; China, Soviet Union, and; China, U.S., and; China and; Clinton and; domino theory and; economy of; estrangement/reconciliation of, with U.S.; Ford and; French colonialism and; French withdrawal from; George H. W. Bush and; invasion of Cambodia by; Japanese occupation of; JFK, LBJ, and; JFK and; postwar; precolonial; presidents’ culpability over; Reagan and; Soviet Union and; trade of, with U.S.; U.S., Cold War, and; U.S., Soviet Union, and; U.S. and; U.S. “credibility” and. See also French war in Vietnam; Indochina; North Vietnam; South Vietnam; Vietnam War
CIVIL WAR IN (1973–1975): Congress and; Ford and; outcome of; peace negotiations and
COMMUNISM IN: French war and; Ho Chi Minh and; Japanese occupation and; nationalism and; origins of; Vietminh and; Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League and; virtue of. See also Vietnamese Communist Party
COMMUNISTS IN; Cambodia and; Diem regime vs. See also Vietnamese Communist Party
EARLY HISTORY OF; China and; Confucianism and; dynasties in; external threats in; struggle for unification in; villages in
HAMLETS IN: NLF and; Strategic Hamlet Program and; Vietcong and; Vietnamese Communist Party and. See also Vietnam: villages in; Vietnam War: village war in
HISTORY OF: August Revolution; buildup to Vietnam War; Confucianism in; conservative revisionism of; coup (1963) against Diem regime; Eisenhower and; French colonialism and; French war in; JFK and; NLF and rise of South Vietnam insurgency; precolonial; struggle for unification in. See also Vietnam: early history of
INDEPENDENCE OF: wars for. See also Vietnam: post–World War II independence of
NATIONALISM IN: Communism and; Francophile; French colonialism and; French war in Vietnam and; Japanese occupation and; non-Communist anticolonial movements and; rise of revolutionary; South Vietnam Chinese and
NORTH–SOUTH DIVISION OF; scheduled unification elections (1956) and
PEASANTS IN: city and; “fence-sitters” among; NLF and; socioeconomics of; urbanization and; Vietnamese Communist Party and; Vietnamese revolution and. See also Vietnam: villages in
POST–WORLD WAR II INDEPENDENCE OF: French colonialism and; Ho Chi Minh and; problems of
REVOLUTION IN: American Revolution and; analysis of; Confucianism and; dark side of; French colonialism and; Marxism and; peasants and; society and; U.S. and; World War II and. See also August Revolution; Ho Chi Minh; Vietminh
SOCIETY OF: analysis of; Communism, Confucianism, Marxism, and; Confucianism and; French colonialism and; socioeconomics of; urbanization and; Vietnamese revolution and; villages and
UNIFICATION (1956) OF, ELECTIONS FOR: Diem and; Eisenhower and; Geneva Conference (1954) and
VILLAGES IN: Confucianism and; early history of; guerrillas and; GVN and; H&I fire and; NLF and; pacification of; socioeconomics of; in South Vietnam; Strategic Hamlet Program and; urbanization and; Vietnamese Communist Party and; in Vietnamese society. See also Vietnam: hamlets in; Vietnam: peasants in; Vietnam War: village war in
WOMEN IN: China and; Confucianism and; family and; traditional roles of; as warriors
WOMEN IN, AND VIETNAM WAR: ARVN and; contributions of; Diem regime and; family preservation and; Ho Chi Minh and; Ho Chi Minh Trail and; as “long-haired warriors,”; men serving with; NLF and; in North Vietnam; in NVA; as RVN prisoners; South Vietnam military and; as unseen fighters; as victims; Vietnamese Communist Party and; Vietnamese Women’s Solidarity Movement; woman-warrior tradition and; Women’s Armed Forces Corps; Women’s Liberation Association
Vietnam Nationalist Party. See Vietnam Quoc Dan Dang
Vietnam Quoc Dan Dang (VNQDD)
“Vietnam Situation and Options” (Kissinger)
Vietnam syndrome; Afghanistan war and; Bosnian war and; Clinton and; George H. W. Bush and; George W. Bush and; Iraq War and; Kosovo and; neoconservatives and; origin/development of; Persian Gulf War and; Reagan and; Rwanda and; September 11, 2001, attacks and; Somalia and; U.S. foreign policy and; U.S. military and; Vietnam veterans and; Vietnam War aftermath and; Vietnam War response in U.S. and
Vietnam veterans. See Vietnam War: veterans of
Vietnam Veterans Against the War; antiwar demonstrations by
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (“the Wall”)
Vietnam War: as air war; American power and; American power limits and; American way of war in; atrocities during; Cambodia in; Cold War and; costs of; “crossover point” in; deaths in; de-escalation of; domestic politics and; DRV victory in; Easter Offensive in; enduring relevance of; experiencers of; fiction and; films and; Ford and; French war in Vietnam and; historians of; as history/myth/event; Ho Chi Minh and; Iraq War and; JFK, LBJ, and; JFK assassination and; as “Johnson’s War,”; Korean War and; Laos in; LBJ and; legacy and postwar perspectives of; loss of; McNamara and; misinterpretations about Vietnam and; names for; Nixon and; Persian Gulf War and; pivotal year (November 1967–November 1968) of; poetry and; popular music and; race and; reevaluation of, after Tet Offensive; stalemate in; stocktaking of; tactics in; television and; themes of; topical perspectives of; transition of, from French war; U.S. economic problems and; Vietnamese in; Vietnamese views of; Vietnamization and; as war that will not go away. See also antiwar movement; French war in Vietnam; Gulf of Tonkin incident; Tet Offensive; United States: Vietnam policy of; Vietnam: society of; Vietnam: women in, and Vietnam War
AFTERMATH OF; Carter and; denial of lessons of; George H. W. Bush and; postmortems of; postwar wars/politics and; Reagan and; reexaminations of; U.S. and; Vietnam syndrome and; Vietnam veterans and. See also Vietnam War: consequences of; Vietnam War: legacy of; Vietnam War: outcome of
ANALYSIS OF: American performance in; balance of ends and means in; containment strategy and; by George W. Bush; Iraq War and; liberal-realist; Marxist/neo-Marxist; need for realistic; origins of; quagmire thesis; stalemate thesis; by Vann; win thesis
ANALYSIS OF, REVISIONIST; origins of; Vietnam history and; Vietnam syndrome and
ASSESSMENTS OF: attrition strategy and; body counts and; border control and; by CIA; by Clifford; by Goodpaster; ground operations and; by Kissinger; by LBJ; main force combat and; O/B dispute and; operations research and; pacification and; by Pentagon; systems analysis and; by U.S. military; Vietnam War strategy and; of Vietnamese Communist Party military strength; by Westmoreland. See also damage assessment
CONSEQUENCES OF; for domestic politics; for presidential elections; questions about; for U.S. economy. See also Vietnam syndrome; Vietnam War: aftermath of; Vietnam War: legacy of; Vietnam War: outcome of
DISENGAGEMENT FROM: Nixon and; Wise Men and
ESCALATIONS OF: by LBJ; by Nixon; North Vietnam bombing and; threats of, and peace negotiations. See also Vietnam War: troop commitments to
HISTORY OF: chronological perspectives; current U.S. policymaking and; presidents’ distortion of
LEGACY OF: estrangement/reconciliation of U.S. and Vietnam as; Vietnam veterans and. See also Vietnam War: aftermath of; Vietnam War: consequences of; Vietnam War: outcome of
LESSONS OF; Cold War and; denial of; Iraq and; Iraq War and; military power limits for democratization and; questions about; for regional conflicts; U.S. policymaking and; Vietnam War response in U.S. and
MILITARY IN; ARVN and; “assembly line” ground war of; attrition strategy of; formula of; LBJ and; NLF and; South Vietnam military and; supply-and-support system of; techno war of; Vann criticism of; village war and; war assessments of
OPERATIONS IN: Operation Breakfast; Operation Cedar Falls; Operation Duck Hook; Operation Junction City; Operation Lam Son; Operation Linebacker; Operation Menu; Operation Rolling Thunder; Operation Vulture. See also Cambodia: invasion of, by Nixon
ORIGINS OF: analysis of; explanations of; questions about; revisionist analysis of
OUTCOME OF; American media and; arguments over; Congress and; Ford and; Nixon, Ford, and Kissinger and; Nixon and; Vietnam War response in U.S. and. See also Vietnam War: aftermath of; Vietnam War: consequences of; Vietnam War: legacy of
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS: bombing threats and; domestic unrest and; French war weariness and; JFK and; Kissinger and; LBJ and; Nixon and; North Vietnam and; North Vietnam bombing and; Paris Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam and; Paris Peace Accords and; presidential election (1972) and; RFK and; South Vietnam and; Soviet Union, North Vietnam, U.S., and; Tet Offensive and; troop commitments and; TVA for the Mekong and; Vietnam civil war and; withdrawal from Vietnam and. See also Geneva Accord/Conference/Agreements
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND; of 1968
RESPONSE TO: by American media; by antiwar movement; by Congress; Iraq War and; by King; LBJ and; lessons and; as mistake; Nixon and; North Vietnam and; North Vietnam bombing and; Tet Offensive and; Vietnam syndrome and; Vietnam War outcome and; withdrawal from Vietnam and. See also antiwar movement
SCHOLARSHIP ON: Iraq War and; on JFK/LBJ “turning-point” argument; on presidential options
STRATEGY OF; Abrams and; antecedents of strategic interest in Vietnam and; attrition and; battlefield isolation as; bombing and; border control and; critical analysis of; decent-interval strategy and; deployment strategy and; difficulties of; diplomacy and; disagreement about; draft and; enclave strategy and; force-deployment strategy and; formula/approach and; vs. goals; LBJ and; MACV and; main force combat and; Nixon and; one-war strategy and; operational level of war and; operations vs. higher level of; pacification and; reasonable-interval strategy and; tactics and; Tet Offensive and; troops and; Vietnam War assessments and; village war and; Westmoreland and. See also attrition; containment strategy; pacification; United States: Vietnam policy of; Vietnamization
TROOP COMMITMENTS TO: LBJ and; North Vietnam bombing and; peace negotiations and; Westmoreland and. See also Vietnam War: escalations of
TROOP WITHDRAWALS FROM: Nixon and; Vietnamization and. See also Vietnam War: withdrawal from
TROOPS OF: American way of war in Vietnam and; AOs of; NLF and; Vietnam War strategy and. See also draft; United States: military of; Vietnam War: military in
VETERANS OF: Agent Orange and; Americans and; Clinton and; George H. W. Bush and; physical and emotional scars of; PTSD among; race and; Reagan and; social alienation of; Vietnam syndrome and; Vietnam War aftermath and; Vietnam War legacy and; women as
VILLAGE WAR IN (1965–1973); vs. big-unit war; CORDS and; LBJ and; Nixon and; NLF and; pacification and; RD cadre teams in; South Vietnam military and; Thieu and; U.S. military and; Vann and; Vietnam War strategy and
WITHDRAWAL FROM: aftermath of; antiwar movement and; JFK and; mutual withdrawal and; Nixon and; peace negotiations and; Vietnam War response in U.S. and
Vietnamese (people): American views of; Clinton and; ethnic identity of; external threats and; French colonialism and; historical characteristics of; precolonial conquering of South Vietnam by; in Vietnam War; views of, of Vietnam War
Vietnamese Communist Party; antiwar movement and; Buddhists and; Central Committee of; COSVN of; enemies of; fear manipulation/terror/assassinations of; hamlets and; insurgency of; intelligence network of; Leninism and; peasants and; religion and; revolutionary warfare by; success of; villages and; women and. See also Indochinese Communist Party; North Vietnam
MILITARY OF: guerrillas in; interrelated battlefield of; local force of; main force of; NLF and; PAVN and; peasants and; policy of; revolution and; revolutionary forces advantages of; strength of; structure of; villages and; women and. See also National Liberation Front
“Vietnamese Communists’ Will to Persist, The” (CIA)
Vietnamese Nationalist Party
Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League
Vietnamese Women’s Solidarity Movement
Vietnamese Workers Party. See Vietnamese Communist Party
Vietnamization: Nixon and; North Vietnam bombing and; pacification and; South Vietnam and; troop withdrawals and. See also Nixon Doctrine
Village Defense Program (CIA)
Village Self-Development Program
village war. See Vietnam War: village war in
VNQDD. See Vietnam Quoc Dan Dang
Vo Nguyen Giap
Vo Thi Mo
“Wall, the” (Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
Wallace, George
war. See Cold War; French war in Vietnam; Iraq War; Korean War; Persian Gulf War; Vietnam: civil war in; Vietnam War; World War I; World War II
war on terrorism
War Powers Resolution
Watergate scandal
We Were Soldiers (film)
Weinberger, Caspar
Westmoreland, William C. (“Westy”); attrition strategy and; body counts and; NLF and; South Vietnam urbanization and; troop commitments and; Vietnam War assessments and; Vietnam War “crossover point” of; Vietnam War strategy and
Wheeler, Earle G.
Williams, Samuel
Williams, William Appleman
Wilson, Woodrow
win thesis
Wise Men: Cold War and; LBJ and; Vietnam War and
women, as Vietnam veterans. See also Vietnam: women in; Vietnam: women in, and Vietnam War
Women’s Armed Forces Corps
Women’s Liberation Association
Workers Party
World War I: attrition strategy of; U.S. and
World War II; August Revolution and; containment strategy and; U.S., Asian Communist movements, and; U.S., China, and; U.S., Soviet Union, and; U.S. and; Vietnamese revolution and. See also Japan: occupation of Vietnam by