Number One Realist: Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare Nathaniel L. Moir

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197629881
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197629888
• Author(s): Nathaniel L. Moir

In a 1965 letter to Newsweek, French writer and academic Bernard Fall (1926-67) staked a claim as the ‘Number One Realist’ on the Vietnam War. This is the first book to study the thought of this overlooked figure, one of the most important experts on counterinsurgency warfare in Indochina. Nathaniel L. Moir’s intellectual history analyses Fall’s formative experiences: his service in the French underground and army during the Second World War; his father’s execution by the Germans and his mother’s murder in Auschwitz; and his work as a research analyst at the Nuremberg Trials. Moir demonstrates how these critical events shaped Fall’s trenchant analysis of Viet Minh-led revolutionary warfare during the French-Indochina War and the early Vietnam War. In the years before conventional American intervention in 1965, Fall argued that–far more than anything in the United States’ military arsenal–resolving conflict in Vietnam would require political strength, willpower, integrity and skill. Number One Realist illuminates Fall’s study of political reconciliation in Indochina, while showing how his profound, humanitarian critique of war continues to echo

Table contents:

Introduction

Chapter One: “First Impressions of a War”

I – Nice, France 1939
II – The Maquis
III – The Problem of Collaboration
IV – Nuremberg
V – Krupp

Chapter Two: “Germany, 1946-1948”

I – At Nuremberg
II – “‘Say I slew them not'”
III – The Keystone of the Arch

Chapter Three: “First Reflections on a War”

I – Washington, DC, 1952
II – Vietnam, May 1953

Chapter Four: “Seven Years of War in Indochina”

I – The Road to the First Indochina War
II – The Democratic Republic of Vietnam
III – The Associated State of Vietnam
IV – The DRV at the end of the War

Chapter Five: “The Ending is a Beginning”

I – The Viet Minh Regime
II – The Cong An, Trinh Sat, and Dich Van
III – Operation Lorraine: The Entrance to the Valley of Dien Bien Phu
IV – Upstate New York

Chapter Six: “The Wind and the Water”

I – “The Village is the Spirit of a Place”
II – “Will South Viet-Nam Be Next?” – May 1958
III – “An extremely independent and audacious man”

Chapter Seven: “An Unassailable Position of Total Weakness”

I – “South Viet-Nam’s Internal Problems”
II – Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare in Indochina
III – “Discontent with Existing Conditions”

Chapter Eight: “1961 – 1967”

I – “Revolutionary Warfare in Laos”
II – “A Father of the New Left”
III – “The Fulbright Program makes a Full Circle: Fall and Fulbright, Washington DC, 1965
IV – “Two Thousand Years of War in Vietnam”

Epilogue

Works Cited

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