Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The importance of studying military history / by Robert H. Ferrell
  • pt. 1. The war in Vietnam: Prelude to Vietnam: the erosion of the U.S. Army's raison d'être, 1945-1962 / by Harry G. Summers, Jr.
  • "In the lands of the blind": Eisenhower's commitment to South Vietnam, 1954 / by George C. Herring
  • Applying air power in Vietnam: the 1972 Linebacker Bombing Campaigns / by Mark Clodfelter
  • pt. 2. The home front: Cold War, limited war, and limited equality: Blacks in the U.S. Armed Forces, 1945-1970 / by Robert F. Burk
  • The antiwar movement in America, 1955-1965 / by Charles DeBenedetti
  • Guns versus butter: Vietnam's effect on congressional support for the Great Society / by James C. Schneider
  • pt. 3. Central America: Revolt against the West: the Nicaraguan Revolution and related movements / by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.
  • The United States, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, 1980-1984 / by Thomas M. Leonard
  • pt. 4. Nuclear war and deterrence: Prospects for ballistic missile defense toward the year 2000 / by Donald M. Snow
  • American nuclear weapons programs and strategies during the 1980s: comparative United States and Soviet perspectives / by Daniel S. Papp.