The Limits of Air Power; the American Bombing of North Vietnam (1989)

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THE LIMITS OF AIR POWER Preface and Acknowledgments O n April 10, 1988, Richard M. Nixon told NBC’s Meet the Press that his greatest mistake as President was not Watergate but his failure to bomb and mine North Vietnam early in 1969 as he later did in 1972. “If we had done that then,” he said, “I think we would’ve ended the war in 1969 rather than in 1973.” The former President’s sentiments are not unique. Indeed, most of the war’s high-ranking air commanders share them. The conviction that mass…