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The Air Force Way of War - U.S. Tactics and Training after Vietnam (Hardcover)
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The Air Force Way of War - U.S. Tactics and Training after Vietnam (Hardcover)
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On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew
over North Vietnam to initiate Operation Linebacker II. During the
next eleven days, sixteen of these planes were shot down and
another four suffered heavy damage. These losses soon proved so
devastating that Strategic Air Command was ordered to halt the
bombing. The U.S. Air Force's poor performance in this and other
operations during Vietnam was partly due to the fact that they had
trained their pilots according to methods devised during World War
II and the Korean War, when strategic bombers attacking targets
were expected to take heavy losses. Warfare had changed by the
1960s, but the USAF had not adapted. Between 1972 and 1991,
however, the Air Force dramatically changed its doctrines and began
to overhaul the way it trained pilots through the introduction of a
groundbreaking new training program called "Red Flag." In The Air
Force Way of War, Brian D. Laslie examines the revolution in pilot
instruction that Red Flag brought about after Vietnam. The
program's new instruction methods were dubbed "realistic" because
they prepared pilots for real-life situations better than the
simple cockpit simulations of the past, and students gained
proficiency on primary and secondary missions instead of
superficially training for numerous possible scenarios. In addition
to discussing the program's methods, Laslie analyzes the way its
graduates actually functioned in combat during the 1980s and '90s
in places such as Grenada, Panama, Libya, and Iraq. Military
historians have traditionally emphasized the primacy of
technological developments during this period and have overlooked
the vital importance of advances in training, but Laslie's
unprecedented study of Red Flag addresses this oversight through
its examination of the seminal program.
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