1963 Indochina in the Year of the Rat

1963 Indochina in the Year of the Rat
  • Introduction: Why This Book Was Produced ............................. 3
  • Keynote Address..........................................................................6
  • Opening Remarks.......................................................................8
  • Session 1 Regime Changes: New Perspectives on Ngo Dinh Diem and the First Republic of Vietnam................................................8
  • Session 2 Perspectives: Participant recollections about the events of 1963 ............................................................................. 38
  • Lunch Thomas A. Donohue ....................................................... 44
  • Session 3 Revolutionary Locales: War and Social Transformation in the South Vietnamese Countryside during the early 1960s.... 49
  • Session 4 Military Matters: U.S. Military Advisors and the ARVN in 1963 .......................................................................................76
  • Friday Evening........................................................................101
  • Session 5 The International Context of Communist Strategy in 1963 .......................................................................................... 102
  • Session 6 American Responses to the Crisis of 1963 in South Vietnam ....................................................................................151
  • Lunch Hoi B. Tran...................................................................217
  • Session 7 Getting in, Getting out: Kennedy and Withdrawal from Vietnam ..................................................................................... 228
  • Session 8 Costs and Consequences: 1963 and the History of the Vietnam War.............................................................................249
  • Costs and Consequences to America Today of Misunderstanding the Events of 1963 in Vietnam..................................................253
  • Closing Remarks.....................................................................260
  • Saturday Evening and Beyond..............................................260
  • Our Wrap Up .........................................................................261
  • A Note on Liberal-Realists, Radical Neo-Marxists, Conservative- Revisionists and other Name Calling ....................................... 264
  • Schools of Thought concerned with the Vietnam War or – What’s in a name? ................................................................................ 265
  • ";The Narrative" ....................................................................... 280
  • References ...............................................................................283
  • An Extract from the Boston Manifesto ..................................... 286