Air Power and the Ground War in Vietnam: Ideas and Actions

by Donald J. Mrozek

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Genres: History, Military Fiction

204 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Dr. Donald J. Mrozek.

Don Mrozek, a professor of history at Kansas State University, Kansas, USA, since 1972 and a faculty member of the university’s new Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies, is a specialist in American military history, with particular interests in civil-military relations, the interplay between societal development and military institutions, American notions about the nature of war and aspects of American military aviation. He also studies the 20th century in general and American cultural history, with an emphasis on the history of sport and the emergence of mass popular culture.

Reviews

[Raj Agrawal · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mrozek provides a critical analysis of airpower’s contribution in the Vietnam War, with somewhat of a focus on how airpower supported the ground fight. However, while there are some portions of his book that analyze how airpower positively integrated with the ground effort, Mrozek’s overarching argument seems more focused on the confusion caused by vacillation at the strategic level and by interservice rivalry at the operational level. Ultimately, while Mrozek tends to have a negative impression of how US Air Force leaders behaved with regard to organizational culture / survival, he does not give the reader any tangible lessons learned – especially with regard to how airpower ought to support ground forces. Instead, he is more concerned with the “core of altered preconceptions about military capabilities and the character of war, although these surely worked reciprocally with such detrimental forces as interservice rivalry” (175).

I perceived Mrozek to see war and politics as two different spheres, especially when he presents Vietnam as more of a “political war” in Chapter 3 (and throughout the book). If he indeed sees war as a continuation of policy (see Clausewitz), then all wars should be viewed as “political wars,” and all wars are fundamentally prosecuted for the purposes of political outcomes. Certainly, military leaders have an obligation to educate political leaders on the best use of military capabilities/limitations, as well as have an understanding of how current capabilities might flex to meet political objectives. Mzozek does a good job of drawing out some of the problems that occurred at the political level as well as between the political and military levels that may have contributed to the challenges in Vietnam.

Good concepts in this book, but the content did not necessarily match the intent.

[Jon Klug · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book several years ago when I was Don’s colleague at USAFA. I really liked this book from what I recall, and I will have to do a quick reread it at some point. I am biased as Don is a friend and we discussed his book.

[William Olenick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although some interesting information, most of the text is a dry discussion of military-citizen politics. Not much actions......

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this back in the early 90s as research for the X-Wing series of space combat simulators.