Contents: Destroying the Japanese Empire: How Asia's First Industrial Power Undermined Western Control - The War Against a Defeated Japan: Punishing a Challenger to the West's Regional Hegemony - Undermining China: America's Twenty- Year War to Destroy the People's Republic - The Rise and Fall of an Independent Indonesia: A Twenty- Year War Effort to Restore Western Control - America in the Philippines: Establishing a Colony and Later Neo- Colony in the Pacific - War in Korea: A New Frontier for American Empire - The Desolation of Korea - Vietnam's Long War: How a Thirty- Year Assault to Impose Western Control Ravaged a Nation - Japan After the War: From Primary Challenger to Key Upholder of Western Hegemony - Economic War on Asia: Crushing the Region's Rising Economies - Asia Divided: Unifying Initiatives as a Threat to Western Primacy - Pivot to Asia and China's Rise: Can a Western- Dominated Order be Perpetuated?