Never in history has a nation applied military power with more painstaking precision and reasoned restraint than the U.S. has in its bombing of North Viet Nam. The only targets that U.S. pilots may attack are the enemy's men and materiel heading south, the roads and trails they take and the weaponry thrown at American aircraft. From prestrike photo reconnaissance to leaflet warnings dropped in advance, every effort is made to avoid hitting civilians and residential areas. Nowhere is the effort greater than around Hanoi, the Red capital, currently home to some 300,000 people. It was precisely because U.S. accuracy...
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