Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- French Assistance to the United States during the War of American Independence -- Britain and the Napoleonic Wars -- The China Lesson -- America's Ordeal inVietnam -- The Uniformities -- Appendix A: On Lawlike Regularities -- Appendix B: British Subsidy Payments, 1793- 1815 -- Appendix C: Amounts of U.S. Aid to Vietnam -- Appendix D: U.S. Defense Support and Supporting Assistance to Vietnam -- Appendix E: Substitutability -- Appendix F: The China Lesson, the Korea Lesson, the Europe Lesson -- Appendix G: The National Security Council and Early Policy -- Appendix H: The Strategic Hamlet Program -- Appendix I: The Reagan Doctrine in Nicaragua -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.