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Could the U.S. Air Force Have Bombed Its Way to Victory in Vietnam?
Hard to believe as it may seem, this past April marked the https://simpleflying.com/south-vietnamese-air-force-pilot-landed-cessna-us-aircraft-carrier/
, particularly those of Han Chinese descent and/or those comprising Vietnam’s entrepreneurial class.
That said, contrary to the assertions of anti-American pundits in academia and the media, the United States actually nearly won https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-4-phantom-indispensable-fighter-vietnam-war-207513
.
The Mission
Without a doubt, U.S. airpower was the biggest factor in America’s https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/without-us-air-force-vietnam-war-would-have-ended-1972-172294
:
“Its https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/f-117-stealth-fighter-how-symbol-us-air-power-was-shot-down-209642
shattered, North Vietnam now lay defenseless to the American bombers, but the United States stopped the attack because there was nothing left worth attacking. Later, accounts began to surface from those with relatives in North Vietnam, who told them that ‘They were preparing white flags to surrender’ because they were convinced they were losing the war badly.”
But Wait, There’s More
That said, airpower alone wasn’t the sole contributor to the near-triumph of the anticommunist forces in Vietnam. Since https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Peace-Richard-M-Nixon/dp/0679433236/ref=sr_1_1?crid=G9ADKIAJV3NF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.H03GFMmVqJekEsOWTEJbODzSVt-GGQPG9TMqeSMXnKiNDLheVwV1Shqp_qq8yRdu_qnUPRBM8gM8-CjcEi9p1swU27fO1up6Ao1UCpGYqMNt-0oOcuaxflkCZaRMbWBSkH1CipFJMiXf_zO1RxHy1Uc-5rZW6LXTdu1jS9_Y4cF9N_krYdYUcm7pOxX6et60WaOwr4i_hN257jcLdNWcYtj7onEPhkKB8DtmmqwyExk.F0iKb3VowlFSPolRCQK5EjcLpg4Eg7-UZQBSRaz1ADk&dib_tag=se&keywords=beyond+peace+richard+nixon&qid=1730479845&sprefix=beyond+peace+%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-1
).
There was also the contribution of naval gunfire in putting the heat (both literally and figuratively) upon the North Vietnamese. For more insight into this, read Harrison Kass’ The National Interest article titled “https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/intense-bombardment-1-iowa-class-battleship-fired-5000-16-inch-shells-during-vietnam-war
.”
To draw some post-Vietnam examples, even in America’s biggest airpower triumphs—from the https://www.amazon.com/Every-Man-Tiger-Tom-Clancy/dp/0399144935/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BAP3J100XGMG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.G1GZ7RzELadMGXX2VyJVYkbU6Pg0CNqcZynTzJOZn7K7wK_fKbYNOhhEFetLorwgWHt-bCffntqZhB_tgjRbLrZdwoxua9In8B7N5uXnOuAND10pbpbGJvf-npz-QhFJALNrt7srWwJ3KJZuUmBjDeQ-PLY6DuLGfgK8tOr_h3QYb1cTp01iQBNgmPzKhVQw1BC_OX5rxqWUO_yb5TlpLagt47ytWKtEGrt5ifWNZzk.-eTXIbvsLOGOaV8yihn0XltsK_BI0KmWIgFv-gGy9hg&dib_tag=se&keywords=every+man+a+tiger+by+tom+clancy&qid=1730473952&sprefix=every+man+a+tiger%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1
—of the United States and its coalition allies did their part, and in the latter two examples, the Kosovo Liberation Army and the post-Saddam Iraqi Army had a little something to do with it.
What Might’ve Been?
I’m going to wrap up this article by saying essentially the same thing I just said in a separate article draft on Operation Linebacker II:
Maybe, just maybe, if the momentum from Operation Linebacker II and the resultant peace talks had been properly seized upon, and America was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES67eFaqPtY
of the demilitarized zone look like a sick joke by comparison.
And maybe, just maybe, if the momentum from Operation Linebacker II and the resultant peace talks had been properly seized upon, the U.S. military wouldn’t have suffered a humiliating defeat and the resultant loss of morale and reputation, which did not recover until the George H.W. Bush administration with the aforementioned Gulf War.
About the Author: Christian D. Orr, Defense Expert
Christian D. Orr is a Senior Defense Editor for https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/could-us-air-force-have-bombed-its-way-victory-vietnam-213632
Hard to believe as it may seem, this past April marked the https://simpleflying.com/south-vietnamese-air-force-pilot-landed-cessna-us-aircraft-carrier/
, particularly those of Han Chinese descent and/or those comprising Vietnam’s entrepreneurial class.
That said, contrary to the assertions of anti-American pundits in academia and the media, the United States actually nearly won https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-4-phantom-indispensable-fighter-vietnam-war-207513
.
The Mission
Without a doubt, U.S. airpower was the biggest factor in America’s https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/without-us-air-force-vietnam-war-would-have-ended-1972-172294
:
“Its https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/f-117-stealth-fighter-how-symbol-us-air-power-was-shot-down-209642
shattered, North Vietnam now lay defenseless to the American bombers, but the United States stopped the attack because there was nothing left worth attacking. Later, accounts began to surface from those with relatives in North Vietnam, who told them that ‘They were preparing white flags to surrender’ because they were convinced they were losing the war badly.”
But Wait, There’s More
That said, airpower alone wasn’t the sole contributor to the near-triumph of the anticommunist forces in Vietnam. Since https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Peace-Richard-M-Nixon/dp/0679433236/ref=sr_1_1?crid=G9ADKIAJV3NF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.H03GFMmVqJekEsOWTEJbODzSVt-GGQPG9TMqeSMXnKiNDLheVwV1Shqp_qq8yRdu_qnUPRBM8gM8-CjcEi9p1swU27fO1up6Ao1UCpGYqMNt-0oOcuaxflkCZaRMbWBSkH1CipFJMiXf_zO1RxHy1Uc-5rZW6LXTdu1jS9_Y4cF9N_krYdYUcm7pOxX6et60WaOwr4i_hN257jcLdNWcYtj7onEPhkKB8DtmmqwyExk.F0iKb3VowlFSPolRCQK5EjcLpg4Eg7-UZQBSRaz1ADk&dib_tag=se&keywords=beyond+peace+richard+nixon&qid=1730479845&sprefix=beyond+peace+%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-1
).
There was also the contribution of naval gunfire in putting the heat (both literally and figuratively) upon the North Vietnamese. For more insight into this, read Harrison Kass’ The National Interest article titled “https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/intense-bombardment-1-iowa-class-battleship-fired-5000-16-inch-shells-during-vietnam-war
.”
To draw some post-Vietnam examples, even in America’s biggest airpower triumphs—from the https://www.amazon.com/Every-Man-Tiger-Tom-Clancy/dp/0399144935/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BAP3J100XGMG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.G1GZ7RzELadMGXX2VyJVYkbU6Pg0CNqcZynTzJOZn7K7wK_fKbYNOhhEFetLorwgWHt-bCffntqZhB_tgjRbLrZdwoxua9In8B7N5uXnOuAND10pbpbGJvf-npz-QhFJALNrt7srWwJ3KJZuUmBjDeQ-PLY6DuLGfgK8tOr_h3QYb1cTp01iQBNgmPzKhVQw1BC_OX5rxqWUO_yb5TlpLagt47ytWKtEGrt5ifWNZzk.-eTXIbvsLOGOaV8yihn0XltsK_BI0KmWIgFv-gGy9hg&dib_tag=se&keywords=every+man+a+tiger+by+tom+clancy&qid=1730473952&sprefix=every+man+a+tiger%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1
—of the United States and its coalition allies did their part, and in the latter two examples, the Kosovo Liberation Army and the post-Saddam Iraqi Army had a little something to do with it.
What Might’ve Been?
I’m going to wrap up this article by saying essentially the same thing I just said in a separate article draft on Operation Linebacker II:
Maybe, just maybe, if the momentum from Operation Linebacker II and the resultant peace talks had been properly seized upon, and America was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES67eFaqPtY
of the demilitarized zone look like a sick joke by comparison.
And maybe, just maybe, if the momentum from Operation Linebacker II and the resultant peace talks had been properly seized upon, the U.S. military wouldn’t have suffered a humiliating defeat and the resultant loss of morale and reputation, which did not recover until the George H.W. Bush administration with the aforementioned Gulf War.
About the Author: Christian D. Orr, Defense Expert
Christian D. Orr is a Senior Defense Editor for https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/could-us-air-force-have-bombed-its-way-victory-vietnam-213632