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Notes
I . The Pentagon Papers (The Defense Department History of United States Decisionmaking
on Vietnam), Gravel Ed, vol1II (Boston, 1971). p 208.
2. lbid.
3. Ibid., p 210.
4. Ibid., p 232.
5. Ibid., p 318.
6. lbid.
7. The Pentagon Papers, vol VI, p 1.
8. Ibid. Pages 2 through 17 of vol IV briefly chronicle the conflict between the Joint
Chiefs and Admiral Sharp (CINCPAC), on the one hand, and the Office of the Secretary of
Defense, on the other.
9. H. S. Wolk, “USAF Plans and Policies: Logistics and Base Construction in Southeast
Asia, 1967” (Washington, 1968), p 7.
10. J. Van Staaveren, “USAF Deployment Planning for Southeast Asia, 1966” (Washington,
1968). p 3.
11. AFM 1-2, United States Air Force Basic Doctrine, Apr 1, 1955, reprinted in Air
Force, Jan 1956, p 73.
12. H. S. Wolk, “USAF Plans and Policies: R&D for SEA, 1968” (Washington, Office of
Air Force History, 1970), p 1.
13. Wolk, “USAF Plans and Policies: R&D for SEA, 1968,” p 22; see also Townsend
Hoopes, The Limits of lntervention (New York, 1970), and lntvw with Gen Earle E. Partridge,
Apr 23-25, 1974, p 544, Office of Air Force History.
14. C. H. Hildreth, “USAF Counterinsurgency Doctrines and Capabilities, 1961-1962”
(Washington, 1964). pp 4, 18, 19.
15. Gen W. W. Momyer, USAF, Air Power in Three Wars (Washington, 1978), p 119.
16. BDM Corporation, A Study of Strategic Lessons in Vietnam (McLean, Va, 1980).
vol V1, Conduct of the War, Book 1, Operational Analyses, Table 6-4.
17. Rules ofEngagement, 1 January 1966-1 November 1969 (Project CHECO) (HQ PA-
CAF, Hickam AFB, Hawaii, 1969).
18. R. F. Futrell, et al, Aces and Aerial Victories: The United States Air Force in Southeast
Asia, 1965-1973 (Washington, 1976), p 5.
19. Vice Adm M. W. Cagle, USN, “Task Force 77 in Action Off Vietnam,” U.S. Naval
Institute Proceedings (May, 1972). p 74.
20. Rules of Engagement, 1 January 1966-1 November 1969, p 14.
21. Rules of Engagement, November 1969-September 1972 (Project CHECO) (HQ PA-
CAE Hickam AFB, Hawaii, 1973).
22. Evolution of the Rules of Engagement for Southeast Asia, 1960-1965 (Project
CHECO) (HQ PACAF, Hickam AFB, Hawaii, 1966).
23. Cagle, “Task Force 77 in Action Off Vietnam,” p 94.
24. Momyer, Air Power in Three Wars, p 147.
25. J. J. Lane, Jr., Command and Control and Communications Structures in Southeast
Asia [The Air War in Indochina, vol I, monograph I] (Maxwell AFB, Ala., 1981), pp 40-60.
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