USAF Plans and Policies in South Vietnam, 1961-1963 : 9781780396484

This recently declassified study from June 1965 outlines the role of Headquarters USAF in aiding the South Vietnamese effort to defeat the communist-led Viet Cong. The author begins by discussing general U.S. policy leading to increased military and economic assistance to South Vietnam. He then describes the principal USAF deployments and augmentations, Air Force efforts to obtain a larger military planning role, some facets of plans and operations, the Air Force-Army divergencies over the use and control of air power in combat training and in testing, defoliation activities, and USAF support for the Vietnamese Air Force. The study ends with an account of events leading to the overthrow of the Diem government in Saigon late in 1963.

Author: Jacob Van Staaveren

Publisher: Military Bookshop

Publication Date: May 12, 2011

Number of Pages: 118 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1780396481

ISBN-13: 9781780396484