FLAMING DART. COMMANDO HUNT. ROLLING THUNDER.
With dramatic names right out of a Hollywood blockbuster, these strike operations conducted by the United States Air Force were part of an aerial campaign that spanned over a decade, sprawled over four countries, and involved the dropping of countless tons of bombs.
In this insightful and lively book, distinguished scholar Ronald B. Frankum, Jr. captures the full extent of the struggle. The first brief overview of the air war in Vietnam, Like Rolling Thunder examines each theatre of operation—South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia—and explores the extent to which the aerial campaigns aided U.S. tactics and strategy. Comprehensive yet concise, the work is a fresh look at this conflict's bitterly contested and hard fought air war.
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Frankum provides a concise and insightful summary of the complex and contentious issues of the air war in Southeast Asia. If one has time for but one book on the air war, I strongly recommend that volume be Like Rolling Thunder. (Reckner, James R. )
A concise, comprehensive account of the air war in Southeast Asia, packed with data, that covers all theaters of the war. (Prados, John )
A timely and judicious account, Like Rolling Thunder skillfully addresses both the successes and failures of one of the more controversial aspects of America's war in Southeast Asia. (Ernst, John )
Presents a concise history of the air war in Vietnam. (Forecast )
A concise, comprehensive account of the air war in Southeast Asia, packed with data, that covers all theaters of the war. (Prados, John )
A timely and judicious account, Like Rolling Thunder skillfully addresses both the successes and failures of one of the more controversial aspects of America's war in Southeast Asia. (Ernst, John )
Presents a concise history of the air war in Vietnam. (Forecast )
Ronald B. Frankum, Jr., . . . offers a compelling, readable, and concise overview of a complex, intricate, and long air war, perhaps the dominant aspect of America's longest war. . . . Much of the earlier writing on air war, mine included, reflected passions attached to the controversies we lived. Frankum's writing—thankfully—is devoid of such emotion. Like Rolling Thunder offers a good overview of a complex story bolstered by statistics, informative maps, photographs of the primary weapon systems, and a useful glossary to make sense of the abundant acronyms. The concluding bibliographic essay alone is worth the price of the book. It will be especially useful in undergraduate Vietnam War courses.
(Tilford, Earl H. )About the Author
Ronald B. Frankum, Jr., served as associate director of the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Silent Partners: The United States and Australia in Vietnam, and he teaches at Millersville University.
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This review is from: Like Rolling Thunder: The Air War in Vietnam, 1964-1975 (Vietnam: America in the War Years) (Hardcover)
Author Frankum has done a very credible job of explaining the development of the air war during the protracted Vietnam War. He has quite appropriately limited his text to the application of airpower into six mission areas, each distinct yet related to the others. He follows a generally chronological progression in the narrative which leads the reader on a natural course. For anyone who is not familiar with the escalation of US involvement in Southeast Asia, this book will provide one of the better overviews of both the strategic and tactical arenas, from humble beginning of small training and advisory cadres, building to massive air forces and missions covering the entire spectrum of airpower. This book is not so much entertaining as it is informative, but in this application it is one of the better books of this sort. While the author makes no attempt to give a comprehensive view of the broader diplomatic and international impacts and implications of America's war in Vietnam, he provides sufficient insight to allow the reader to generally understand how other events evolve relative to air power. The text contains very good maps, giving the reader more than the usual detail as to the locations of air operations. He includes excellent additives in the form of explanations of acronyms and abbreviations, brief descriptions of virtually all aircraft involved in the war and a particularly complete Bibliographical Essay, from which the historically determined reader will find really good complimentary readings. Some minor editorial lapses will distract the expert readers, particularly the misidentifying of aircraft and their capabilities; however, the overall quality of supportive data is excellent and gives sufficient detail to validate the text. The relative neophyte to this chapter of American warfare will find this book very useful and it is recommended to those so inclined.
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