{ISBN available upon request.}
It is now rather well known that 'training missions'
became a euphenism for 'close air support' being flown
by american aircrews in vietnam. That it became apparent
after a while that the older WWII era A-26, et al, that
we were sending into vietnam were passing their 'air worthy'
certification is not in itself a sufficiency.
As some folks from the sixties will recall, we had operational
plans to invade canada, going back before the 'rainbow' plans
of pre-WWII era. So that a set of contingency plans were in place
as a part of the planning structure does not mean that the US was
fully committed to upgrading it's level of commitment to vietnam.
Some will recall that some of the older plans for invading canada
were 'leaked' as a part of the whole 'watergate' era "glasnost"
model of modern american journalism.
I would, of course, also recommend chomsky's "rethinking camelot"
as a lovely monogramme that debunks a lot of the Kennedy Assasination
Mythology that came to the fore with Oliver Stone's "JFK" - and that
the USA was on a collision course with operations in south east asia
for cultural reasons that were independent of the owner of the white house.
So that there were plans in place is actually a GOOD thing. Since as folks
have learned in the last decade, we have found ourselves 'cold cocked' by
operations such as those in Haiti and Bosnia - where political events
overrun the planning staff!
ciao
drieux
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E-mail: drieux@wetware.com
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Date: 10/11/97
Time: 02:00:08
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