Forward / by Dennis Showalter -- Introduction: Historians and the Vietnam War / by Andrew Wiest -- The Vietnam War in an Asian perspective -- The Vietnamese Civil War of 1955-75 in historical perspective / K.W. Taylor -- Ngo Dinh Diem and South Vietnam reconsidered / Philip E. Catton -- What we still do not know : Moyar's treatment of global communism / William Stueck -- A one-sided picture of the Chinese-Vietnamese ties during the Vietnam War / Qiang Zhai -- Response one / Mark Moyar -- Debating Triumph forsaken as history -- Triumph impossible / James Dingeman -- Fighting stories / Charles Hill -- Imperial revanchism : attempting to recover a postwar "noble cause" / Scott Laderman -- Triumph forsaken as a path to setting the record straight / Robert Turner -- Governing the Vietnamese "masses" : the United States, Ngo Dinh Diem, and the notion of Triumph forsaken / Jessica M. Chapman -- Triumph forsaken as military history / Andrew James Birtle -- Response two / Mark Moyar -- Orthodoxy and revisionism -- Orthodox and revisionism : the domino theory as a case study / David Anderson -- Caricature for caricature? : the Vietnamese context in Triumph forsaken / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- Familiar territory : Mark Moyar's call to revisionism and the counterfactual / Michael Lind -- Throwing down the gauntlet : Triumph forsaken and the revisionist challenge / James McAllister -- Ngo Dinh Diem and Vietnam War revisionism in Mark Moyar's Triumph forsaken / Edward Miller -- Response three / Mark Moyar -- Conclusion / by Michael Doidge.