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Warriors and Fools

 * Introduction
 * Thucydides


 * Chap 1: Best of Times, Worst of Times
 * World War II
 * Post–World War II economic expansion
 * Post–World War II baby boom
 * G.I. Bill
 * Levittown
 * Women in World War II
 * Bretton Woods system
 * United Nations
 * Cold War
 * Cold War (1947–53)
 * Timeline of events in the Cold War
 * Iron Curtain
 * Marshall Plan
 * Truman Doctrine
 * Containment
 * NATO
 * Korean War
 * First Indochina War
 * Geneva Conference (1954)


 * Chap 2: The Best and the Brightest
 * The Best and the Brightest
 * Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
 * John F. Kennedy
 * Whiz Kids (Department of Defense)
 * Robert McNamara
 * Game theory
 * Domino theory
 * Lyndon B. Johnson
 * Great Society
 * War on Poverty
 * Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
 * Vietnam War
 * Presidency of Richard Nixon
 * Henry Kissinger
 * Role of the United States in the Vietnam War
 * Madman theory
 * Silent majority
 * Pentagon Papers
 * China–United States relations
 * Operation Menu
 * Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War
 * Paris Peace Accords


 * Chap 3: War is a Two Party Affair
 * North Vietnam
 * Ho Chi Minh
 * Võ Nguyên Giáp
 * Lê Duẩn
 * People's Army of Vietnam
 * Viet Cong
 * Viet Cong and PAVN strategy, organization and structure


 * Chap 4: The Unwinnable War
 * William Westmoreland
 * Attrition warfare
 * Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
 * Paul D. Harkins
 * Strategic Hamlet Program
 * John Paul Vann
 * Tet Offensive
 * Battle of Khe Sanh
 * The Uncounted Enemy
 * Westmoreland v. CBS
 * Creighton Abrams


 * Chap 5: The Long Shadow of Vietnam
 * Gulf War
 * Iraq War
 * War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
 * Vietnam War in film
 * America in Vietnam