Air War In Northern Laos

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The Air War In Indochina

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Author : Cornell University. Air War Study Group
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Release Date : 1972

The Air War In Indochina written by Cornell University. Air War Study Group and has been published by Beacon Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.

En analyse af den amerikanske luftkrig over Indokina i perioden 1965-1971. Analysen er støttet af adskillige videnskabelige institutioner og behandler mange forskellige emner vedr. luftkrigen, herunder krigens økonomi, strategi, psykologi og humanitære forhold.

A Look At The Air War In Laos The War Over A Bordering Country

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Author : Evelyn Christmas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-02

A Look At The Air War In Laos The War Over A Bordering Country written by Evelyn Christmas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-02 with categories.

Not much is known about the Skyraiders who served in the conflict in Southeast Asia. In this new memoir, a former air force pilot shares his experiences of flying hundreds of night missions over Laos. Laos became involved in the war through internal battles and by providing a vital route structure, known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail, for supplies intended for the North Vietnamese Army in South Vietnam. A-1 Skyraider pilots -- like the author -- flew propeller-driven airplanes which could stay over a target or survivor for an extended time, carry a wide variety of ordnance, and absorb a lot of hits. The brave pilots faced guns and mountains in northern Laos and ground fire in southern Laos. It is 1969 and the author is on his way to flying warplanes in the Vietnam conflict. He is commissioned to fly A-1 Skyraiders in sometimes harrowing nighttime missions over Laos-surviving not only the danger of the missions he flew but also the bureaucracy of the air force, from fitness testing to additional duties assigned, to attacking impossible-to-find targets in the dead of night-with minimal fuel supplies. At once entertaining and riveting, as well as thought-provoking, Firefly is the story of one man's journey in a world at war and a day-to-day description of the fighting force that was flying A-1 Skyraiders in combat. Firefly contains actual transcriptions of dialogue of pilots locating a target and making a strike in northern Laos.

Here There Are Tigers

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Author : Reginald Hathorn
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2008-01-24

Here There Are Tigers written by Reginald Hathorn and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-24 with History categories.

In-the-cockpit perspective on aerial warfare during the Vietnam War. Many never-before-heard stories--some of them tragic, others humorous.

Air War In Northern Laos

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Author : William W. Lofgren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

Air War In Northern Laos written by William W. Lofgren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.

Air Operations In Northern Laos 1 Apr 1 Nov 70

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Author : Harry D. Blout
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971

Air Operations In Northern Laos 1 Apr 1 Nov 70 written by Harry D. Blout and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Laos categories.

Voices From The Plain Of Jars

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Author : Fred Branfman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

Voices From The Plain Of Jars written by Fred Branfman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.

Gradual Failure The Air War Over North Vietnam 1965 1966 Illustrated Edition

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Author : Jacob Van Staaveren
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-06

Gradual Failure The Air War Over North Vietnam 1965 1966 Illustrated Edition written by Jacob Van Staaveren and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with History categories.

Includes over 100 maps, plans and illustrations The United States Air Force reached its nadir during the opening two years of the Rolling Thunder air campaign in North Vietnam. Never had the Air Force operated with so many restraints and to so little effect. These pages are painful but necessary reading for all who care about the nation’s military power. Jacob Van Staaveren wrote this book in the 1970s near the end of his distinguished government service, which began during the occupation of Japan; the University of Washington Press published his book on that experience in 1995. He was an Air Force historian in Korea during the Korean War, and he began to write about the Vietnam War while it was still being fought. His volume on the air war in Laos was declassified and published in 1993. Now this volume on the air war in North Vietnam has also been declassified and is being published for the first time. Although he retired to McMinnville, Oregon, a number of years ago, we asked him to review the manuscript and make any changes that seemed warranted. For the most part, this is the book he wrote soon after the war. Readers of this volume will also want to read the sequel, Wayne Thompson’s To Hanoi and Back: The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966-1973, which tells the more encouraging story of how the Air Force employed airpower to far greater effect using a combination of better doctrine, tactics, technology, and training.

Air War

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Author : Project Air War
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

Air War written by Project Air War and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Indochina categories.

"This handbook has been designed to help U.S. newsmen, political figures, and peace groups do what correspondents in Indochina can no longer do: reveal the facts about today's air war to the American people. The graphics and source material are intended especially for use in leaflets, speeches, articles, posters, and brochures"--Introduction.

Setup

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Author : Air University Press
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-18

Setup written by Air University Press and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-18 with categories.

American military professionals, especially the US Air Force, have had a difficult time understanding their role in this nation's defeat in Vietnam. Dr Tilford provides a critical self-analysis and questions the underlying assumptions of the Air Force's strategy in Southeast Asia. He argues that we must understand what went wrong in Vietnam and why and not manipulate the record and paint failure as victory. He explains what led to the "setup," which not only resulted in a failure for airpower but also contributed to the fall of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to Communist forces in 1975. Tilford-a retired Air Force officer and a widely respected historian in his own right-is not squeamish about demolishing the myths that abound concerning the air war in Southeast Asia. He is forthright in challenging both the USAF's strategic tunnel vision and the cherished misconceptions of many civilian historians whose criticisms of the air war in Vietnam are long on politics and short on facts. The integrity of Dr. Tilford's research, his knowledge of air power theory and technology, and his expertise as a historian all contribute to a high quality effort that proves, among other things, that neither the Air Force nor its civilian critics have yet secured a monopoly on truth. In his analysis of the air war against North Vietnam, Tilford presents one overwhelming lesson: that USAF strategic bombing doctrine is ethnocentric and Eurocentric, and is conceived utterly without regard to important cultural and political variations among potential adversaries. This lesson, more than any other, is one that today's Air Force must learn if it is to establish any relevance in a post-cold war world in which the global, superpower war for which it has planned almost exclusively since 1945 becomes an ever more remote possibility. Whatever the Air Force's operational role in the twenty-first century turns out to be, it seems likely that an air technocracy geared toward fighting a general war against a modern, industrialized major power will become even less relevant than it proved to be in Korea and Vietnam. At the very least, the Air Force of the future will do well to heed Dr. Tilford's other major conclusion that because war is more than sortie generation and getting ordnance on targets, statistics are a poor substitute for strategy. Contents * FOREWORD * PREFACE * 1 IN THE TIME OF ATOMIC PLENTY * Air Power Fulfilled * The Road to a Separate Service * The Atomic Bomb and the New Air Force * Preludes to Vietnam * The "New Look" and the Air Force * Notes * 2 SITUATIONS OF A LESSER MAGNITUDE * The Kennedy Administration, the Cold War, and the Air Force * The Laotian Factor * In at the Beginning * At War with the Army * Notes * 3 ROLLING THUNDER AND THE DIFFUSION OF HEAT * The Dark before the Storm * The Air Force that Flew Rolling Thunder * Rolling Thunder Begins * Bombing the North * The Bombing Escalates * Rushing to Meet Our Thunder * Switch in Strategy or in Targets? * Toward a Bombing Halt * Tet and the Bombing Halt * Notes * 4 "HOWEVER FRUSTRATED WE ARE" * Shifting Gears in 1968 * Search for Tomorrow * Operation Commando Hunt * Productivity as Strategy * The Air War in Northern Laos * Cambodia * Back to Laos * Lam Son 719 Fallout * Frustrations Continue * Proud Deep Alpha * Notes * 5 "IT WAS A LOSER" * Marking Time along the Ho Chi Minh Trail * Spring in the Air * The Shoe Falls * Deciding to Go North Again * Linebacker One * Bombing and Diplomacy * Linebacker One as a Tactical Success * Saigon Balks * Linebacker Two * Notes * 6 COMPLETING THE SETUP * Laos: Coming Full Circle * Cambodia * Mayaguez as a Microcosm of the War * The Setup Completed * Why Did Air Power Fail? * History * Doctrine * Technology * Management * Decreased Intellectual Acumen * Some Generic Reasons * Unhealthy Myths * Notes

Gradual Failure

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Author : Jacob Van Staaveren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Gradual Failure written by Jacob Van Staaveren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Government publications categories.