In the United States, discussion of the Vietnam War has tended to
focus on the U.S. role, U.S. strategy, U.S. diplomacy, and the
war's effects on American society. The tendency to hold U.S.
domestic politics responsible for the war's outcome implies that
events in Indochina were nothing more than a backdrop for an
essentially American drama. In contrast, The Second Indochina War
emphasizes the Vietnamese dimensions of a conflict in which all of
Indochina-Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia-was treated as a single
strategic unit. The author contends that only from this perspective
is it clear how the war began, why its scale outstripped U.S.
expectations, and why the Communists prevailed. Professor Turley
gives a balanced account of events in, and views from, Washington,
Saigon, and Hanoi. Drawing on years of research in primary
documents and interviews conducted by the author in Saigon and
Hanoi, the book focuses on the experience, strategies, leadership,
and internal politics of the revolutionary side. To set the scene,
the author considers the legacies of colonial rule in Indochina and
the origins of the U.S. commitment there. He recounts the
development of the Saigon regime and explains the bases of
revolution in the South, the key communist decisions, and the
North's response to bombing. The major military campaigns are
clearly described and analyzed, as are the negotiations that led to
the Paris Agreement and its aftermath. Vietnam is the central
focus, but the reader's attention is also drawn to the strategies
and events that unified the conflict in all three countries of
Indochina into a single war. Concise yet comprehensive, The Second
Indochina War is suitable for the general reader, as a text for
courses on the war, or as supplementary reading for courses on
Southeast Asian politics, U.S. foreign policy, revolutionary
conflict, and Asian regional security. An annotated bibliography
and chronology enhance its usefulness. Original material on
communist internal debates and military campaigns, based on primary
documents in Vietnamese, will also make this book a valuable
resource for scholars of Southeast Asia.
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