The Air War in Vietnam is a deep dive into the effectiveness of air
power during the Vietnam War, offering particular evaluation of the
extent to which air operations fulfilled national policy
objectives. Built from exhaustive research into previously
classified and little-known archival sources, Michael Weaver
insightfully blends new sources with material from the State
Department's Foreign Relations of the United States Series. While
Air Force sources from the lion's share of the documentary
evidence, Weaver also makes heavy use of Navy and Marine materials.
Breaking air power into six different mission sets--air
superiority, aerial refueling, airlift, close air support,
reconnaissance, and coercion & interdiction--Weaver assesses
the effectiveness of each of these endeavors from the tactical
level of war and adherence to US policy goals. Critically, The Air
War in Vietnam perceives of the air campaign as a siege of North
Vietnam. While American air forces completed most of their air
campaigns successfully on the tactical, operational, and strategic
levels, what resulted was not a failure in air power, but a failure
in the waging of war as a whole. The Air War in Vietnam tackles
controversies and unearths new evidence, rendering verdicts both
critical and positive, arguing that war, however it is waged, is
ultimately effective only when it achieves a country's policy
objectives.
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