Barren SEAD: USAF Defense Suppression Doctrine, 1953-1972 Audiobook By James L. Young Jr. cover art
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by James L. Young Jr.

  • Narrated by: CAPT Kevin F. Spalding USNR-Ret
  • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
  • Release date: 10-30-15
  • Language: English

Since 1972, the United States Air Force has argued that its operations against North Vietnam were unsuccessful primarily through a combination of civilian interference and poor strategic choices. Often citing the “success” of Operation Linebacker II as an example of what might have been had its leaders been given free rein, for almost 40 years, the Air Force has maintained that its proper employment is the key to winning America’s wars.

In Barren SEAD, award-winning historian James L. Young, Jr., propagates a different theory: Instead of being a sign of what the Air Force was capable of, Linebacker II was a bitter failure that starkly outlined the USAF’s limitations. Furthermore, instead of the meddling of the Johnson and Nixon administrations, this defeat was brought about by Air Force leaders’ refusal to develop a Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) doctrine from 1953-1972. Relying primarily on Air Force archival documents, memoirs, and contemporary doctrinal publications, Young illustrates just how dangerous the Air Force’s failure to nurture its SEAD capability was during this period of the Cold War.

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Author

James L. Young Jr.

Language

English

Length

4 hrs and 20 mins

Narrated by

CAPT Kevin F. Spalding USNR-Ret

Release date

10-30-15

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