x, 523 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-507) and index

pt. 1. In search of war: Trailing the beast ; Legacies of resistance : Vietnamese nationalism against the Chinese and French ; The permanent war begins : 1940-1954 ; America come to Vietnam : installing the mechanisms, 1954-1964 -- pt. 2. The green machine: Technowar at ground level : search-and-destroy as assembly line ; The Tet Offensive and the production of a double reality ; Forced draft : urbanization and the consumer society come to Vietnam ; Pacification war in the countryside -- pt. 3. Death from above: Air war over North Vietnam : bombing as communication ; Structural dynamics of escalation in theory and practice, 1966-1967 ; The structure of air operations ; The redistribution of air war : Laos, 1968-1973 ; Closing out the war : Cambodia and North Vietnam, 1969-1973 -- pt. 4. The perfect war: Finding the light at the end of the tunnel ; Surveying the wreckage : the limits of conventional criticism and the reproduction of technowar

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