Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. A Word about Words ix
5. Maps xiii
6. Introduction: States of War 1
7. 1 The Rise of the Archipelago State 15
8. 2 Building Military Force 57
9. 3 The Asian Routes of War 89
10. 4 The City at War 121
11. 5 Wiring War 159
12. 6 Policing War 191
13. 7 Trickle Economics 218
14. 8 The Levée en masse and War Communism 248
15. 9 Of Rice and War 281
16. 10 The Road to Dien Bien Phu 320
17. 11 Imperial Dust: Ho Chi Minh’s Associated States of Indochina 347
18. 12 Dien Bien Phu: The Changing of Heaven and Earth 389
19. Conclusion 427
20. Notes 439
21. Index 503