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Operation Rolling Thunder


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Operation Rolling Thunder
Examines failure to achieve objectives of the American air operations over North Vietnam (1965-1968). Background of campaign; strategy analysis; air campaign execution and its evaluation.
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages) | 10 sources | 2001 United States


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"UNFOCUSED THUNDER
Operation Rolling Thunder, 1965-1968
Operation Rolling Thunder was the code name given to American air operations over North Vietnam in the period beginning shortly after the Tonkin Gulf incident in early 1965 and ending with the start of the Paris peace talks in late 1968. (It must be emphasized that it does not include the Linebacker II bombing of Hanoi, which took place some four years after Rolling Thunder ended.)
Rolling Thunder was intended to achieve two objectives: to interdict the movement of troops and supplies from North Vietnam into South Vietnam, and to inflict punitive levels of damage on North Vietnam, both with the objective of compelling it to cease support for Communist forces within South Vietnam. Rolling Thunder was thus an ..."

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"Operation Rolling Thunder" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Operation-Rolling-Thunder/10813>




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