War Without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam

War Without Fronts
	Contents
	List of Maps
	Introduction
	Masters of War
	THE DYNAMICS OF ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE
	POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING
	Generals
	MILITARY DECISION-MAKING
	IN THE LINE OF FIRE: CIVILIANS IN THE WAR OF ATTRITION
	Officers
	THE ‘VIETNAM ONLY ARMY’
	THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
	ONLOOKERS, ACCOMPLICES AND FELLOW- CRIMINALS
	Warriors
	‘GRUNTS’ AND CRACKS
	PERSONAL TESTIMONY
	‘THEM AND US’
	HATRED AND SELF-HATRED
	SELF-EMPOWERMENT
	Self-assurance
	Conquering Fear
	Revenge
	1967 - Death Squads in the Northern Provinces
	‘INDIAN COUNTRY’
	TASK FORCE OREGON
	QUANG NGAI AND QUANG TIN
	SCALPHUNTERS
	16 March 1968 - The Massacres of My Lai (4) and My Khe (4)
	GENERALS
	OFFICERS
	WARRIORS
	The starting point
	On the way they murdered
	The progression of violence
	Perpetrators, onlookers and abstainers
	On the duration of the slaughter
	War of Attrition in the Southern Provinces
	SEVERAL ‘MY LAIS’?
	OPERATION SPEEDY EXPRESS
	COVERING UP THE TRACKS
	Judges
	THE LAWS OF WARFARE AND THE CULTURE OF MILITARY LAW
	INVESTIGATIONS
	TRIALS
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
	Notes
	Introduction
	5	1967 - Death Squads in the Northern Provinces
	7	1968-1971 - War of Attrition in the Southern Provinces
	Conclusion
	Sources
	Bibliography
	Index of Military Units
	General Index