Clodfelter analyzes the strategic bombing campaigns of the Vietnam era and reveals the serious pitfalls in the reliance on air power as a primary instrument in a limited war
The story of Japan's preparation for war and its role in World War II until its surrender
Combining vivid personal narrative with historical and operational analyses, this book takes a candid look at U.S. naval airpower in the Vietnam War. Coauthors John Nichols, a fighter pilot in the war, and Barrett Tillman, an award-winning aviation historian, make full use of their extensive knowledge of the subject to detail the ways in which airpower was employed in the years prior to the fal…
Contents : The third Indochina conflict : introduction / David W.P. Elliott The Kampuchean-Vietnamese conflict / Stephen P. Heder Vietnamese policy and the Indochina crisis / Gareth Porter Vietnam's "boat people" / Charles Benoit China's strategy toward Vietnam and its implications for the United States / Robert G. Sutter The strategic triangle and the Indochina crisis / Banning Garrett …
The choice taken : the aerial bombardment of North Vietnam. Task Force 77 in action off Vietnam / Malcolm W. Cagle Half an amphibious force at war : the Marines in I Corps. Marine aviation in Vietnam, 1962-1970 / Keith B. McCutcheon ; Marine Corps operations in Vietnam, 1965-1966 / Edwin H. Simmons ; Application of doctrine : victory at Van Tuong village / O.F. Peatross A novel role : the log…