Vietnam in Iraq : tactics, lessons, legacies and ghosts / edited by John Dumbrell and David Ryan.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-230) and index.

The final chapter? : the Iraq War and the end of history / Lloyd C. Gardner -- The Vietnam laugh track / Marilyn B. Young -- Unraveling the domestic foreign policy consensus : presidential rhetoric, American public opinion, and the wars in Vietnam and Iraq / Richard A. Melanson -- Iraq and Vietnam : military lessons and legacies / Richard Lock-Pullan -- 'A national symphony of theft, corruption and bribery' : anatomy of state building from Iraq to Vietnam / James M. Carter -- 'Vietnam', victory culture and Iraq : struggling with lessons, constraints and credibility from Saigon to Falluja / David Ryan -- Europe's Vietnam syndrome : America and the quagmire of Iraq / Jon Roper -- No more Vietnams : Iraq and the analogy conundrum / Trevor B. McCrisken -- Vietnam and Iraq : strategy, exit and syndrome / John Mueller -- Falling dominoes : the United States, Vietnam and the war in Iraq / Matthew Masur -- The Iraq and Vietnam wars : some parallels and connections / John Dumbrell.