AP 514(L) - Air Mobility in Non-Permissive Environments

OVERVIEW: This lecture examines the effort to use air-mobility operations to bring about victory in the Vietnam War. It reminds the audience that airpower is not limited to fixed-wing aircraft engaged in kinetic strikes, and that in Vietnam, in particular, the dominant aircraft was the helicopter, not the airplane. During that war, the effort to develop a successful air-mobility doctrine, while at the same time fighting a series of disconnected wars, led to a number of key failures that made victory in the conflict extremely unlikely.