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Project CHECO Southeast Asia - Commando Hunt VI (Paperback)
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Project CHECO Southeast Asia - Commando Hunt VI (Paperback)
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High quality reprint of this recently declassified 1972 study.
Interdiction of the overland flow of supplies from North Vietnam to
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam and Cambodia
was a primary mission for American airpower in Southeast Asia
(SEA). The primary target for air interdiction was the supply
system in North Vietnam (NVN), until the bombing halt there shifted
the emphasis to the logistic channel in southern Laos, the Steel
Tiger area of operations. The interdiction campaigns there bore the
name Commando Hunt with numerical designations that changed with
the semiannual monsoon shift. Commando Hunt VI, the third
southwest-monsoon, or wet-season, campaign, covered the period 15
May through 31 October 1971. The past pattern had been for the
enemy to move supplies through Steel Tiger into the Republic of
Vietnam (RVN) when the weather in Laos was relatively dry. Some of
these supplies had been moved through Cambodia en route to RVN;
since the deposition of Prince Sihanouk in 1970, the enemy needed
to use supplies against the Cambodian government as well as against
RVN. With the onset of the wet season, as the road system in Laos
became a quagmire, the enemy shifted his emphasis to stockpiling
materiel in the NVN border areas to prepare for a logistics surge
through Laos during the next dry season. The sanctuary given the
enemy by the NVN bombing halt enabled him to get a running start
for the dry season. Commando Hunt VI came on the heels of the most
successful dry season campaign to date, whether judged in terms of
greatest observed bomb damage, lowest throughput-to-input ratio, or
lowest total throughput. Thus enemy activity could be expected to
be at a higher level than during previous wet seasons, in order to
supply his forces in the RVN and Cambodia.
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