"Michael E. Weaver offers a detailed, comprehensive and meticulous re-examination of air power effectiveness during the Vietnam War. His fresh approach, shrewd analysis, and insightful research, including newly declassified evidence, demystifies air power's contribution to statecraft in a war that defied traditional metrics for measuring success and failure. This book is a work of significance and highly recommended." - Colonel John Andreas Olsen, author of A History of Air Warfare
"Michael Weaver's The Air War in Vietnam is a comprehensive, in-depth, and multifaceted look--strategy, tactics, politics, and technology--at all aerial warfare missions in Vietnam, from interdiction to air superiority, along with supporting operations often not addressed, such as aerial refueling, aerial reconnaissance, and electronic warfare. A well-researched book that uses many recently declassified documents, The Air War in Vietnam is a must-read history for anyone interested in the use of air power in Vietnam." - Col. Eileen A. Bjorkman, USAF (Ret.), author of Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Story of the U.S. Military's Commitment to Leave No One Behind
"The Air War in Vietnam, an indispensable volume of airpower scholarship, provides richly developed analysis of airpower in a decade-long war of challenging hybrid characteristics and shifting US strategies. For planners, policymakers, senior leaders, and warfighters seeking insight on how to apply airpower as a strategic instrument and tactical tool, [ this] fulsome chronicle insightfully analyzes the suboptimization of Americas airpower portfolio in Southeast Asia." - Vince Alcazar, Parameters Bookshelf, US Army War College Press
"The Air War in Vietnam is a welcome comprehensive study of American airpower in this complex conflict. Weaver insightfully connects the tactical to the political and much in between. His well-researched narrative is as deep as it is broad, giving scholars of the Vietnam War and students of the efficacy of airpower a great deal to consider." William Thomas Allison, Georgia Southern University
"This book will add measurably to the historical record and is a must-read for all Vietnam War and airpower enthusiasts and scholars." Brigadier General Chand T. Manske, USAF (Ret.)
"Based on a wide and exhaustive array of documentary evidence, The Air War in Vietnam is as rich in details as it is nuanced in its conclusions. This book is more than a history of US operations in the skies above North Vietnam and across the rest of Indochina; it is an illuminating, thought-provoking, and original assessment of a key aspect of the Vietnam War that has been misunderstood and misjudged for far too long." - Pierre Asselin, author of Vietnams American War: A History
