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Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction xiii -- Ch. 1 Theories Underlying Hawk and Dove Policy Models 3 -- Ch. 2 Data 18 -- Ch. 3 Methods of Analysis 29 -- Ch. 4 Tests of Crucial Hypotheses and Assumptions of U.S. Policy-makers about the Vietnam War 39 -- Ch. 5 Empirical Patterns of Interaction in the Escalation of the War 57 -- Ch. 6 Computer Simulation Predictions of the Escalation of the War 78 -- Ch. 7 Simulation Exercises of Alternative Hawk and Dove Policies 106 -- Ch. 8 The Vietnam War from the 1968 Tet Offensive to the 1970 Cambodian Invasion 128 -- Ch. 9 The Paradox of Waging War to Achieve Power 149 -- Ch. 10 U.S. Policy in Vietnam : Calculated or Miscalculated? 171 -- Ch. 11 Afterword : The 1973 Cease-Fire Agreement 186 -- Appendix A : Content Analysis of Communications 199 -- Appendix B : Components of the Eight Communications Indices 207 -- Appendix C : Time Plots of Composite Indices and Individual Variables 211 -- Bibliography 247 -- Index 251