Linebacker II was the last great American bomber offensive in the Vietnam War. The short bomber offensive saw B-52 bombers attack targets in Hanoi and Haiphong in December 1972. Let's talk about how the USA and North Vietnam prepared and adapted for this operation.

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Brand, Matthew (2007) ‘Airpower and the 1972 Easter Offensive’, CGSC.

Brian, Leslie (2021) "Air Power's Lost Cause: The American Air Wars of Vietnam (War and Society)"

Dong Sy Hung (2023). “Combat in the Sky” Airpower and the Defense of North Vietnam, 1965-1973

Dorr, Robert F; Peacock, Lindsay (2000) [1995]. Boeing's Cold War Warrior: B-52 Stratofortress. Oxford: Osprey.

Drenkowski, Dana and Lester W. Grau (2007). “Patterns and Predictability: The Soviet Evaluation of Operation Linebacker II”. The Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol. 20 No. 4.

Harris, Warren (1987) ‘The Linebacker Campaign’ Air War College

Haun, Phil, and Colin Jackson (2016). ‘Breaker of Armies: Air Power in the Easter Offensive and the Myth of Linebacker I and II in the Vietnam War’. International Security 40, no. 3 (Jan)

Hankins, Michael (2016). ‘The Teaball Solution’. Air Power History 63, no. 3

Teixeira, Leonard D.(1990) ‘Linebacker II: A Strategic and Tactical Case Study’. Air University PRess, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.

Tilford, Earl H. (1991). Setup: What the Air Force Did in Vietnam and Why. Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press.

McCarthy, James R., George B. Allison, and Thomas A. Bussiere (2018). Linebacker II: A View from the Rock. New edition. Barksdale AFB, Louisiana: Air Force Global Strike Command Office of History & Museums.

- Timecodes -
00:00 - B-52 vs North Vietnam
00:18 - Linebacker II
01:48 - Why Linebacker II Happened
03:25 - How North Vietnam Prepared
06:46 - Adapting Linebacker II
08:20 - Claims, Losses, Experience
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11:12 - Claims, Losses, Experience (cont.)
15:04 - Linebacker II in Sum

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