Response to Alec Holcombe’s JVS review essay on Vietnam: State, War and Revolution (1945–1946)

This essay is a response by the author to the review essay on his book Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945–1946) (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2013) by Alec Holcombe (Ohio University) which appeared in Volume 11, no. 3–4 of this journal.