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Very good. 224 pages. Pencil erasure residue on half-title page. Illustrations. Includes Introduction: The Theory of Strategic Bombing and American Air Power Doctrine. Includes chapters on The Air War in South-E ast Asia; The Situation in Vietnam, 1969-72; The Heaviest Day; May 1972; June 1972; July 1972; August 1972; September 1972; October 1972; 'Linebacker II'; The North Vietnamese Reaction; and Conclusion. Also includes Appendices on Air-to-Air Refuelling; Radar Command, Control and Communications; the 'Wild Weasel' and 'Iron Hand' Missions; Combat Search and Rescue; The Electronic Countermeasures War; Reconnaissance; The Air-to-Air War; 'Linebacker II': Targets and Accuracy; and The 'Linebacker' Raids and 'Desert Storm' Compared. Also includes Bibliography and Index. A detailed account of the conduct and effectiveness of the US strategic bombing policy in the most controversial aerial campaign of the Vietnam War: The two Linebacker raids. "...gives a month-by-month and sometimes day-by-day narrative of the raids...uses the experiences of pilots and crews to convey the intensity of the raids and the air-to-air combat that occurred between US fighters and North Vietnamese MiGs....Smith rightly realizes that airpower...is only one tool needed to solve political problems."--Military Review This book focuses on the last major US air offensive of the Vietnam War, and provides a concise account of one of the most controversial bombing campaigns in modern history. Included are details of Linebacker II--one of the most concentrated and destructive bombing campaigns of all tie-in overview of the political background and context, full analysis of targets and bombing accuracy, and much more. More bombs fell on North Vietnam from May to December of 1972 than were absorbed by any other country in history. "Linebacker I" dropped 150, 000 tons of bombs from May to October, while "Linebacker II" delivered 20, 000 tons during eleven days in December. Yet the bombings did not bring the North Vietnamese to their knees. In riveting detail and masterful scope, an expert in air history shows how the bombings were successful by conventional tactical standards, but undermined by the failures of political and military planners, the South Vietnamese government--and an enemy capable of surviving with its infrastructure in a shambles.