Well, you should read my book, Midair. My uncle flew five tours of duty in Vietnam. He flew the first bombing mission of the war in 1965 and the last in January 1973. (Pilots were only required to fly one combat mission in Vietnam.) His perspective on the war is unique, and he had access to all the classified information about the war. The pilots had a 10-mile-radius circle around Hanoi. They never -- or almost never -- attacked targets within that radius. And they never heavily bombed Hanoi in 1965 or 1967. The only time they really attacked Hanoi's warmaking capabilities within that 10-mile radius was during Operation Linebacker in late December 1972, which was essentially the same war plan that McNamara pulled off the table in February 1965. The N. Vietnamese signed the Paris Peace Accords three weeks later. It wasn't an accident. No less than Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap of N. Vietnam stated after the war on numerous occasions that he and his planners were always perplexed as to why the U.S. never tried to decapitate the North's war machine in Hanoi. Also, read the forward to my book, which was written by Charles Kamps of the U.S. Air Force Air Command College in Montgomery, AL. He agrees wtih Gen. Giap completely. And, again, I repeat, the best U.S. strategy by far would've been to have never engaged in SE Asia.