To: equaviator
“Rolling Thunder” has to be the most overhyped name in military history. It conveys the USAF would carpet bomb North Vietnam starting from the DMZ up to Hanoi but no LBJ had to give the ok for an outhouse to be bombed.
3 posted on
03/16/2018 5:46:50 AM PDT by
C19fan
To: C19fan
...LBJ had to give the ok for an outhouse to be bombed. His micromanagement of targeting was part of the problem, the other part was that he preferred to bomb jungle and outhouses instead of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese lines of communication.
4 posted on
03/16/2018 5:55:24 AM PDT by
drop 50 and fire for effect
("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
To: C19fan
...LBJ had to give the ok for an outhouse to be bombed. Operation Exploding Crapper?
7 posted on
03/16/2018 5:57:15 AM PDT by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: C19fan
Who the he!! wrote this crap
" It did massive damage but, as history later revealed, the United States underestimated the commitment of the Vietnamese people to unified self government and overestimated their commitment to Communism. What happened was that the Democratic Congress refused to give the South Vietnamese military support to which they were entitled and left them at the mercy of the communists supported by China and Russia. The fact is that the bastards betrayed an ally.
Whoever wrote this crap needs to be fired. Military.com better do a better job
14 posted on
03/16/2018 6:46:55 AM PDT by
johncatl
(...governs least, governs best.)
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