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Acknowledgments page vii

1 Introduction: Inventing Vietnam

2 The Cold War, Colonialism, and the Origins of the American

Commitment to Vietnam, 1945–1954

 The End of Colonialism, the Cold War, and Vietnam

 Making the World Safe through Development

 Intellectuals, Modernization, and the Third World

 The State of Vietnam: History, Geography, and

Imperialism

 Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building

3 “The Needs Are Enormous, the Time Short”: Michigan State

University, the U.S. Operations Mission, State Building, and

Vietnam

 Collective Security and Crafting Consensus

 “The Needs Are Enormous, the Time Short”: Michigan State

University in Vietnam

 Conclusion

4 Surviving the Crises: Southern Vietnam, 1958–1960

 The American Mission and Building Vietnam

 Inventing Vietnam and the Politics of Aid

 My-Diem and the Rise of the Insurgency

 Conclusion

5 “A Permanent Mendicant”: Southern Vietnam, 1960–1963

 Southern Vietnam in the Decade of Development

 Counterinsurgency, Strategic Hamlets, and the Militarization

of U.S. Policy

 The Political Economy of State Building

 Conclusion: Political Collapse and the Fall of Diem

6 A Period of Shakedown: Southern Vietnam, 1963–1965

 “Stable Government or No Stable Government”: Rescuing

Southern Vietnam from the Vietnamese

 “The Construction Miracle of the Decade”: The Military

Buildup and Inventing Vietnam

 “The Works of Peace”: The Mekong Delta and the Politics of

War

 “Long Since…Dependent on U.S. Aid”

 Conclusion

7 The Paradox of Construction and Destruction: Southern Vietnam,

1966–1968

 “RMK-BRJ Is Changing the Face of South Viet Nam”

 “Not Much More Than a Drop in the Bucket”: Refugees,

Pacification, and the “Other War” in Southern Vietnam

 “A National Symphony of Theft, Corruption, and Bribery”

 Conclusion

 Epilogue: War, Politics, and the End in Vietnam

 The Tet Offensive

 Leaving Vietnam Undone

 Bibliography

Index

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　　This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign

policy in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of

failed state-building efforts. This U.S. nation building project

began in the mid-1950s with the ambitious goal of creating a new

independent, democratic, modern state below the 17th parallel. No

one involved imagined this effort would lead to a major and

devastating war in less than a decade. Carter analyzes how the

United States ended up fighting a large-scale war that wrecked the

countryside, generated a flood of refugees, and brought about

catastrophic economic distortions, results which actually further

undermined the larger U.S. goal of building a viable state. Carter

argues that, well before the Tet Offensive shocked the viewing

public in late January, 1968, the campaign in southern Vietnam had

completely failed and furthermore, the program contained the seeds

of its own failure from the outset.

　　? Clear and readable history of the period ? Presents a novel

interpretation of the causes of the Vietnam war ? Incorporates a

nuanced understanding of US foreign policy and in-depth coverage of

the war