After Korea, America was organized, trained, and equipped to deter and if necessary, to fight a global thermonuclear conflict against the Soviet Union.
In 1965 America found itself thrust unexpectedly into a conventional war against a 求爱all Asian country who was well-supplied by China and Russia.
The US Air Force and Navy evolved gradually and painfully into air forces capable of flying and fighting major air campaigns against the rapidly developing integrated air defenses over Hanoi and Haiphong.
Mounting aircraft losses, inconclusive results from massive air strikes, political difficulties at home and across Southeast Asia, and growing numbers of American prisoners of war defined the challenge air planners faced.
Can you plan and orchestrate effective air missions against one of the densest and most lethal integrated air defense systems on the face of the earth?
Or can you command the North Vietnamese air defenses and inflict another Dien Bien Phu on the Yankee Air Pirates?