Much has been written on the American War in Vietnam. The floods of scholarly publications on the topic are difficult to survey. Similarly difficult to survey are the many suggestions and recommendations paired with general criticism of the American way of war in the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam. The analyses by Nathaniel L. Moir, currently working as an associate at the Harvard Kennedy School, are therefore a welcome addition to contemporary interpretations of the Vietnamese way of war through the eyes of Bernard B. Fall, the distinguished Southeast Asia expert. Fall was an early and constant military pundit and a significant author on Southeast Asian politics and culture. With over five hundred pages, Moir's book delivers the first holistic and fresh account of the life and times of Fall. Moir's portrayal offers timely questions in the wake of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, especially in a time when...

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