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The Air Force Way of War: U.S. Tactics and Training After Vietnam

The Air Force Way of War: U.S. Tactics and Training After Vietnam

Laslie, Brian D.

Hardcover

Series: Aviation & Air Power

Air CombatPersian Gulf War (1991)Vietnam War

ISBN10: 0813160596
ISBN13: 9780813160597
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Jun 5 2015
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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