Like Rolling Thunder

Ronald B. Frankum, Jr., served as associate director of the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Silent Partners: The United States and Australia in Vietnam, and he teaches at Millersville University.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The Early Air WarChapter 2: A Gradual Response: The Air War over North Vietnam, 1965–1968Chapter 3: In Command and Control: The South Vietnam Air Campaigns, 1965–1968Chapter 4: The Secret War: The Air War in Laos, 1964–1975Chapter 5: Nixon's Other War: The Air Campaign in Cambodia, 1969–1975Chapter 6: A Year of Decision, 1972ConclusionBibliographic EssayAppendix: Aircraft Flown in Southeast Asia

Frankum provides a concise and insightful summary of the complex and contentious issues of the air war in Southeast Asia. If one has time for but one book on the air war, I strongly recommend that volume be Like Rolling Thunder.