ANNALS OF WAR about the Vietnam war since 1969, under the Nixon Admin. Since 1954, the U.S. has had only one concern & that was the war to destroy the revolutionary movement. It has not won that war & it has not destroyed the revolution, but it has changed Vietnam to the point where it is unrecognizable to the Vietnamese. The American war has devasted the economy while at the same time it has broken down the political power that is necessary to restore it. Whatever strategy the U.S. uses to carry on the war, it will only be delaying the inevitable. It is not just that the N.V. & the N.L.F. will refuse to surrender; it is that after all these yearsof war the V. have an immense desire for peace. Peace implies the victory of a single political system & way of life; peace implies revolution a complete change in the order of society, the goal of the N.L.F. Tells about the unsuccessful (according to writer) invasions of Cambodia & Laos, in 1970 & 1971, respectively, & about Vietnamization, which, during the Laotian operation, came to mean increased Vietnamese deaths in pursuit of the Amer. objective of extricating the Amer. troops from V. without peace negotiations. Vietnamization also resulted in having half the V. population, armed & trained by the U.S., sitting in military occupation of the other half. Tells about the bombing of Indo-China, which was Nixon's way of maintaining the Thieu regime. Gives various casualty statistics.