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The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America's Vietnam War. By John M. Shaw. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. xiv, 222 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1405-2.)
Ten years after the fall of Saigon, Richard M. Nixon called the 1970 invasion of Cambodia "the most successful military operation of the Vietnam War" (No More Vietnams, 1985, p. 149). The joint U.S.-South Vietnamese incursion provoked a maelstrom of domestic controversy, touching off some of the most bitter and tragic antiwar protests of the entire conflict and prompting Congress to finally (albeit unsuccessfully) take action to reign in the war in Southeast Asia. Scholars have decried the invasion for its alleged illegality and for contributing to the rise of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. While paying scant attention to the domestic political and diplomatic consequences, John M....