The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam
A History, Military, Military History book. A good read about the failure of Air Power in Vietnam
Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American experience in these conventional wars only to be thwarted in the context of a limited guerrilla struggle in Vietnam. Although a faith in bombing's sheer destructive power led air commanders to believe that extensive air assaults could win the war at any time, the Vietnam experience instead showed how even intense aerial attacks...
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- Pages: 312 pages
- ISBN: 9780803264540 / 803264542
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This was a hard book for me to read. It was not as bad as Into the Quagmire in which VanDeMark described me as he described the protagonists, Johnson, MacNamara, etc., who knew they could not win the Viet Nam War because the government was not a viable government. But I did not know that. Like so many. I was conditioned by WWII, my... A good read about the failure of Air Power in Vietnam Well written and thought out though certainly one should be cautious to note what is opinion and what is fact. This book has been required reading for some Air Force educational courses.
