"Examines the political and military struggle to control the people, territory and resources of South Vietnam during the Second Indochina War, from the 1968 Tet Offensive to the fall of Saigon in April 1975, through the perspective of spatial and territorial competition"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction -- Prologue : the road to Tet Mau Than -- Part I. Theoretical dimensions of reolutionary conflict and the operational environment. Communist revolutionary warfare and insurgent geographies -- Pacification and counterinsurgent state building -- Competing and incompatible visions -- Violent pacification and revolutionary repression -- Part II. The Control war in South vietnam, 1968-1975. Peace politics and the transformation of the Second Indochina War : the impact of the 1968 Tet Offensive -- Allied ascendance and the crisis of the insurgent state, 1968-1971 -- The tenacious revolution and revival of the insurgent state, 1969-1972 -- Triumph of the insurgent state, 1972-1975 -- Conclusion.