Operation Smallbridge: Chester Ronning, the Second Indochina War, and the Challenge to the United States in Asia
In 1966 Canadian diplomats and politicians sought to bring the United States and North Vietnam to the negotiating table. Canada9s secret search for peace, code-named Operation Smallbridge, was led by retired
 diplomat Chester Ronning, who twice traveled to North Vietnam. Although Ronning9s first mission convinced him that Hanoi was willing to discuss terms, U.S. escalation of the war continued. On his second
 mission, Ronning discovered that Washington9s rejection of Hanoi9s overture had hardened the official attitude in North Vietnam. Ronning may have exaggerated the breakthrough from his earlier visit, and
 his efforts may have unrealistically raised expectations for a settlement. Instead of bringing the adversaries closer together, Operation Smallbridge inadvertently made the Vietnam conflict and its belligerents
 more intractable and the prospects for a peaceful political solution more unlikely.
Toward Canada in the World: Thoughts on the future of Canadian Foreign Policy History
As a field of study, Canadian Foreign Policy history has been on life support for the better part of three decades. While its resiliency speaks to the commitment of its practitioners, the fact that Canadian international history has largely been sidelined is troubling given both the field’s importance generally and its appeal to undergraduate students and the wider public. Yet, at the same time as Canadian Foreign Policy history has been in stasis, a new field examining Canadian interactions with the world through transnational and cultural lenses has arisen. As the apocryphal Chinese proverb puts it, this situation presents both danger and opportunity for Canadian international history. In this article I explore how Canadian international historians might seize the initiative by crafting a new, expansive field of study—Canada in the World—which preserves the study of Canadian Foreign Policy while incorporating other analytical approaches.
The Tet Offensive
Preface by William Head Introduction by Marc Jason Gilbert and William Head The Tet Offensive by Larry Berman The Tet Offensive and Sino-Vietnamese Relations by John Garver The NLF and the Tet Offensive by Robert Brigham Giap and Mau Than Tet 1968: The Year of the Monkey by Cecil Currey The Tet Offensive and its Aftermath by Ngo Vinh Long My Recollections of the Tet Offensive by Ambassador Bui Diem The Tet Offensive and Middletown: A Study in Contradiction by Anthony O. Edmonds The Warning That Left Something to Chance: Intelligence at Tet by John Prados Don't Bother Me with the Facts I've Made Up My Mind: The Tet Offensive in the Context of Intelligence and U.S. Strategy by Larry Cable Tet Beyond the Wire: TCK-TKN, the General Offensive-General Uprising by Robert Norse The Battle of Khe Sanh, 1968 by Peter Brush President Johnson and the Decision to Curtail Rolling Thunder by Mark Jacobsen The Myth of Tet: American Failure and the Politics of War by Robert Buzzanco Selected Bibliography Index