1. A Deepening Commitment and a New Command: Beginnings of United States Involvement ; Toward the Second Indochina War ; The United States Responds to the New Threat ; Creating the Command
2. A Joint Command: Complications and Conflicts, 1962-1963: MACV and the Pacific Chain of Command ; MACV and the MAAG ; Formation of MACV Headquarters ; The Component Commands ; The Debate over Control of Air Power ; A Small But Complicated Command
3. From Hope to Frustration: Developing an Allied Strategy ; The Campaign Falls Apart ; MACV and the Coup Against Diem
4.Reorganizing and Reviving Pacification: United States Policy: Picking up the Pieces ; Hanoi Prepares for a Larger War ; A New MACV Commander ; Headquarters Reorganization and Expansion ; MACV: Executive Agent for Pacification? ; Struggling for Stability
5. The Beginning of Escalation: Widening the War ; OPLAN 34A ; Air and Ground Operations in Laos ; Early Planning for the Air War ; After Tonkin Gulf: Reinforcing the South ; Air War in the North: Planning and Command ; The Marines Land at Da Nang
6. Beginnings of the Ground Troop Commitment, January-June 1965 Plans and Proposals, 1954-1964 ; Collapse of the CHIEN THANG Plan ; A Limited Response ; Three Proposals for Sending Troops ; Edging into the Ground War ; Questions of Command and the Concept of Operations ; Where the Question Stood, June 1965
7. The Fateful Decisions, June 1965-February 1966: South Vietnam in Peril ; Air Power Holds Back the Enemy ; Decisions for an American Ground War ; Implementing Phase I ; Decisions at Honolulu
8. MACV Headquarters: The Years of Expansion, 1965-1967: Enlarging the Headquarters ; Planning and Control of Operations ; Combined Intelligence ; The Advisory Mission ; Reporting, Research, and Analysis ; How Joint the Command?
9. Controlling U.S. Forces: Military Assistance Command, Pacific Command, and the JCS ; Naval Forces, Vietnam ; U.S. Army, Vietnam: A Question of Roles ; The Seventh Air Force: A Multiplicity of Masters ; The Air War in the South: A Single Manager? ; The Field Forces and the III Marine Amphibious Force
10. The Allies and Pacification: The Allies ; The South Vietnamese: Cooperation and Coordination ; Pacification
