Setup: What the Air Force Did in Vietnam and Why

Outside the context of traditional Air Force concepts and hidebound-institutional assumptions, Dr Earl H. Tilford provides in this volume the sort of critical self-appraisal of USAF strategy in Vietnam that has been too long in coming. Uniformed Air Force historians, while relatively prolific generally have demonstrated a distressing lack of skepticism; as a result, their efforts too often lack the critical analysis necessary to challenge unhealthy myths and to derive meaningful lessons from past operational experience. The Air Force has never produced a body of internal critics comparable to those Army officers who, through the late 1970s and 1980s, often risked their military careers to challenge prevailing ground force strategies in Southeast Asia in the 1960s. Dr Tilford, along with a small but growing number of his former USAF colleagues, has begun the belated process of questioning the underlying assumptions of the USAF's strategy in Southeast Asia.

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SKU SKU16216

Author Earl H. Tilford, Jr.

File Size 19.6 MB

Number of Pages 329

Published/Revised 2002

Publisher United States Air Force

Quality Good

Region Vietnam

Time Period Vietnam War

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