Contents
Foreword
1. America's Entry into the Morass (1950-1969)
2. Evolution of a Strategy
What the Nixon Administration Found Groping for a Strategy: The
North Vietnamese Offensive and the Bombing of Cambodia Attempts
at a Diplomatic Outcome Peace Initiatives The Beginning of
Troop Withdrawals A Secret Meeting Another Reassessment The
Unpacifiable Doves A Strategy Emerges
3. Secret Negotiations and a Widening War
The Secret Negotiations Special Advisor Le Duc Tho and the First
Round of Talks Laos Interlude The Overthrow of Sihanouk
Another Major Troop Withdrawal The Attack on North Vietnamese
Sanctuaries The Cambodian Incursion The Domestic Travail The
Balance Sheet
4. Diplomacy and Strategy: From a Cease-fire Proposal to the
Interdiction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Madame Binh's Eight Points The Setting of a Strategy The Laos
Operation Lam Son 719: The Military Operation Braving Domestic
Opposition The Negotiations Are Resumed The South Vietnamese
Presidential Election Revealing the Secret Talks
5. Hanoi Throws the Dice: The Vietnam Spring Offensive
Diplomatic Maneuvers What Strategy?
6. The Showdown
The May 2 Secret Meeting The Mining and Bombing of North Vietnam
The Summit in the Balance
7. From Stalemate to Breakthrough
Testing the Stalemate A Visit to Saigon Interlude: Meetings of
September 15 and 27 The Breakthrough: The October 8 Meeting
8. The Troubled Road to Peace
Interlude in Paris Consultation with Thieu Rumblings Showdown
with Thieu The Journey Home
9. "Peace Is at Hand"
Election Interlude Haig Visits Saigon Again The Meetings with
Le Duc Tho Resume The Breakdown of the Negotiations The
Christmas Bombing Negotiations Resume The January Round of
Negotiations Thieu Relents Peace at Last Postlude
10. A Visit to Hanoi
11. Enforcement and Aid
The Thieu Visit Watergate and Enforcement The Search for Peace
in Cambodia The Aborted Chinese Mediation The Negotiations
Unravel
12. Ford and Vietnam
The Strangulation of South Vietnam Hanoi Resumes the Offensive
The End of the Road
13. The Collapse of Cambodia
The Myth of the Failure to Negotiate on Cambodia The Final
Collapse Final Note
14. The End of Vietnamar
The Debate over Evacuation The Search for a Political Solution
The Evacuation The Last Day
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Index
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Medal of Liberty. He is the bestselling author of numerous books, and is currently the chair of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm.
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