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Striving for Air Superiority: The Tactical Air Command in Vietnam
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Aerospace Power Journal
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July 1, 2002
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Copyright informationCopyright U.S. Superintendent of Documents Summer 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A poor appetite for good books eventually leads to intellectual malnutrition.
Striving for Air Superiority: The Tactical Air Command in Vietnam by Craig C. Hannah. Texas A&M University Press (http://www.tamu.edu/ upress), John H. Lindsey Building, Lewis Street, 4354 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843, 2002, 176 pages, $29.95.
This book is both enlightening and disappointing. Beginning with the former, Hannah's thesis is that during the first two decades of the nuclear era, Tactical Air Command (TAC) failed to concentrate on the missions specified for it by the War Department in 1946. The reason was an "identity crisis" brought about by the dominance of nuclear deterrence in national ...
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