Vince Alcazar

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Author: Michael E. Weaver

Reviewed by Vince Alcazar, Air Force (retired) planner and fighter pilot, Department of Defense

The Air War in Vietnam addresses President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration’s use of airpower (or lack of it) and why American airpower underperformed, as well as airpower innovations that influenced the US warfare model in the Vietnam War. The reviewer bills this work as “…an indispensable volume of airpower scholarship. It is a richly developed analysis of airpower in a decade-long war with challenging hybrid characteristics and shifting US strategies.”

Publication Date

9-20-2023

Keywords

air war, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, ground warfare, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon

Disciplines

Defense and Security Studies | Leadership Studies

Book Review: The Air War in Vietnam

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