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The history of US involvement in Vietnam presents a complex picture, and one that is still the subject of extensive research and analysis. The air aspect of the conflict, for example, involved not only several air interdiction campaigns in Laos and North Vietnam, but a running battle for air supremacy, strategic bombing efforts in key areas of the North, very extensive air support of ground forces in South Vietnam and massive efforts in the employment of helicopter, tactical and strategic transport.
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These controversial attacks and their genesis are the subject of the book by William Shawcross, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia (London: Deutsch, 1979).
Colonel Ray L. Bowers in Air Power and Warfare, Proceedings of the Eighth Military History Symposium (USAFA, 1978) Chapter VI.
By September 1967, the entire B-52 fleet was modified to this standard. Later, some of the B-52s operated from U-Tapao in Thailand. John Greenwood in The Vietnam War (London: Salamander Books, 1979) p. 198.
Quoted in several sources for example in Admiral U. S. G. Sharp, Strategy for Defeat (Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1978) p. 255.
For a discussion of this, see General Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports (New York: Doubleday, 1976) pp. 417–23.
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Armitage, M.J., Mason, R.A. (1985). The Air War in South-East Asia. In: Air Power in the Nuclear Age, 1945–84. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17964-0_4
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