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French troops on the road from Nam Định to Thái Bình City in Vietnam, May 1954. Photo by Robert Capa/Magnum Scroll through the comments section of any popular YouTube video about Vietnamese history, ...

is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His latest book is Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies (2025). As I cycle from downtown ...