Parallel wars? Can "lessons of Vietnam" be applied to Iraq? /David Elliott -- "I'm with you": Tony Blair and the obligations of alliance: Anglo-American relations in historical perspective / Alex Danchev -- Forlorn superpower: European reactions to the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq / Wilfried Mausbach -- Manufacturing the threat to justify aggressive war in Vietnam and Iraq / Gareth Porter -- Wise guys, rough business: Iraq and the Tonkin Gulf / John Prados -- Gulliver at bay: the paradox of the imperial presidency / Andrew J. Bacevich -- Class wars / Christian G. Appy -- Female shape of the all-volunteer force / Elizabeth L. Hillman -- Familiar foreign policy and familiar wars: Vietnam, Iraq ... before and after / Gabriel Kolko -- Mr. Rumsfield's war / Lloyd C. Gardner -- Zelig in U.S. foreign relations: the roles of China in the American post-9/11 world / Walter LaFeber -- Counterinsurgency, now and forever / Marilyn B. Young -- Torture in the crucible of counterinsurgency / Alfred W. McCoy.