The US Interdiction Campaign in North Vietnam
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CIA-RDP80T01719R000400030003-5
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T
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24
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December 9, 2016
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June 5, 2001
Sequence Number:
3
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Publication Date:
July 18, 1972
Content Type:
MEMO
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18 July 1972
The US Interdiction Camoaian in North Vietnam
Concslus ions
The US target system posited for the implemen-
tation of the air interdiction campaign in the. JCS
memorandum of 15 June has some significant strong
points. The campaign -- Operation Linebacker ----
is, for the most part, limited #~z) those targets
related --c) North Vic Lnam' s war-sueportive, capa-
bility. The program avoids some of .the diffusion
of effort: characteristic of the Rolling Thunder
.pro ,Tram -nd seems generally to conform to basic
principles o.- sound target selection.
The program is profiting from a number of
features absent from Rolling Thunder, such as the
relatively aeLl-nt-ral.i_zed (management of the day-
to--day effort and the introduction of improved tech--
nology. Purtherrnore, the rapidity- with which the
effort h