Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Part 1. Setting the Stage

1. Rolling Thunder and the Numbers Game

2. The Environment

3. The Naval Air War

Part 2. 1965

4. Gradual Beginnings

5. The War Heats Up

6. The Bridge Campaign

Part 3. 1966

7. The POL Campaign

8. The Battle Increases

9. Fire!

Part 4. 1967

10. Long, Hot Summer

11. The Stennis Hearings and the Climax of Rolling Thunder

12. Black October

13. In the End

Part 5. In Retrospect

14. 1968, the Summer of Violence

15. The POWs

16. “Because Our Fathers Lied”

Appendix 1: 1965 WESTPAC

Appendix 2: 1966 WESTPAC

Appendix 3: 1967–1968 WESTPAC

Appendix 4: Chronological History of Rolling Thunder

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index