Crosswinds: The Air Force's Setup in Vietnam (1993) By Earl H. Tilford, Jr.
 
A retired Air Force officer and Vietnam veteran believe the Air Force was ultimately unsuccessful in Vietnam because it never swayed from its belief in a strategic bombing against a country that did not have the manufacturing and transportation base like Germany and Japan in WWII. 
 
"Tilford exposes the generals' tunnel-vision. . . . He demolishes the myth that the 1972 ‘Christmas bombing' brought Hanoi to its knees . . . . His controversial thesis is that the bombing of the North and the interdiction campaign against the Ho Chi Minh Trail were in no way decisive and that USAF leadership obtusely failed to perceive that North Vietnam, an agricultural nation, was simply not susceptible to strategic bombing."—Publishers Weekly ".
 
"...hard-hitting study on the failure of American airpower in the Vietnam War . . . . The acute intellectual content of the book and the author's engaging writing style makes the book easy to recommend."—Armed Forces Journal International
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
252 Pages
In Good Condition