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#Operation Linebacker II, a strategic and operational campaign of short duration but greatly increas

During Operation Linebacker II of the Vietnam War, the initial use of chaff, in "corridors" dropped from c

...ent, [[Operation Linebacker I]] was effective at the operational level. [[Operation Linebacker II]] was decisive in achieving a specific short-term strategic goal.

...the exception of an 11-day period in 1972, Vietnam War#Linebacker II 1972|Operation Linebacker II, was carried out by Air Force and Navy fighter-bombers, designed as tactica

...ngagement, Operation Linebacker I was effective at the operational level. Operation Linebacker II was decisive in achieving a specific short-term strategic goal.

Eventually, it was mined during [[Operation Linebacker II]] in 1972, an operation that significantly increased the intensity of the b

...level]] of stopping supply to invasion in progress, where the subsequent [[Operation Linebacker II]] had both the [[strategy|strategic]] objective of preventing the import of

...ary for heavy bombers operating against a serious air defense, including [[Operation Linebacker II]] above [[North Vietnam]]. In a role reversal, however, heavy bombers su

forces to speak of there--and some B-52 bombing (Operation Linebacker I and Operation Linebacker II), they

While much of the Vietnam War used variants of deterrence, Operation Linebacker II used a compellence model to force the North Vietnamese to return to the Par

...he North Vietnamese walkout, Nixon launched an all-out bombing campaign, [[Operation Linebacker II]], during which massive raids into North Vietnam were made. It was an expe

...asures than fighters. In the worst case of when the B-52s, in the intense Operation Linebacker II campaign of 1972-3, flew over sites covered by SAMs, they suffered 3% per s

...illing to apply military force not involving ground troops, culminating in Operation Linebacker II. <ref name=NSAEBB233 /> ...te in the year, left the negotiating table, Nixon authorized the intensive Operation Linebacker II campaign, which forced the North Vietnamese to negotiate; a peace treaty wa

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With the exception of the 11-day [[Vietnam War#Linebacker II 1972|Operation Linebacker II]] attacks against [[North Vietnam]] in 1972, the B-52 bombers, designed fo

...American relationships. There were unity of command problems in the 1972 [[Operation Linebacker II]] all-American bombing of the North.

...bjectives here, as well as in [[Operation Linebacker I]], were military. [[Operation Linebacker II]] also was effective, but it had well-defined objectives at the level of gr ...o Chi Minh trail]]. B-52 use in the major [[Operation Linebacker I]] and [[Operation Linebacker II]] operations against North Vietnam are generally not considered ARC LIGHT m

...k on the North. It can only be speculated if bombing of the intensity in [[Operation Linebacker II]] would have constituted "worst case", or if the "worst case" required a gr

...n mid-December, ordered bombing at an unprecedented level of intensity, [[Operation Linebacker II]]. This was at the [[military strategy|strategic]] and [[grand strategy|gra

...ssured of guaranteed future American support. This assurance came in the [[Operation Linebacker II]] air campaign in December 1972, when for the first time in the war Hanoi a