(3.) Eduard Mark, Aerial Interdiction: Air Power and Land Battle in Three American Wars (Washington, D.C.: Center for Air Force (CAF) History, 1994), p.
Nalty, The War Against Trucks: Aerial Interdiction in Southern Laos, 1968-1972, (Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museum Program, 2005), [hereafter The War Against Trucks]; Bernard C.
Opponents of interdiction also maintain that
aerial interdiction today in Peru would not be effective because smuggling routes have changed.
The Dominican Republic's highly successful
aerial interdiction efforts since 2010 demonstrate that Dominican institutions have the capacity and will to stem the flow of drugs into the country.
In World War I, Royal Air Force (RAP) bombers inadvertently introduced aerial interdiction. They had been unable to locate their primary targets and instead attacked German railheads in France; in so doing, they disrupted the flow of equipment and supplies to the German front.
(10.) Eduard Mark, Aerial Interdiction: Air Power and the Land Battle in Three American Wars (Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1994), 271-72.
McNamara's persisting in such an effort, even in the form of
aerial interdiction, served mainly to estrange LeMay and other uniformed leaders from the civilian officials of the Department of Defense.
From mid-April until early July, Honduras and the United States conducted Operation Anvil, a joint
aerial interdiction operation.
In 1994, his book
Aerial Interdiction in Three Wars, was published by the Center for Air Force History.
In concert with maritime and
aerial interdiction, the head of the DNCD, General Rolando Rosado Mateo, continues to emphasize the pursuit of major drug traffickers and the dismantling of their organizations.
The
aerial interdiction campaign focused on four areas: on the Rolling Thunder air campaign in North Vietnam in Route Packages IV, V and VI; on the area in southern North Vietnam near the DMZ in route Package I; on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in southern Laos; and on trails within South Vietnam.
Regional
Aerial Interdiction Initiative Program (RAII).
