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(More customer reviews)Most of the jet fighter/bomber pilots in northern Laos had no idea that the Forward Air Controllers calling in their airstrikes were non-rated or enlisted personnel until Jan Churchill interviewed them in 1998. The USAF had become involved in Vietnam as advisors following the Indochina War. As an outgrowth of the Vietnam conflict, the U.S. had developed a secret American military aid program for Laos, and in 1955 underwrote the entire Laotian defense budget. Laotian neutrality was routinely violated by both the communists and the U.S. -- with U.S. violations being kept secret from the American public. in Classified Secret: Controlling Airstrikes In The Clandestine War In Laos, Jan Churchill not only reveals and documents American involvement, but exposes for the first time to general public awareness that sergeants were controlling airstrikes in a total departure from the traditional Air Force chain of command and bureacratic allignment -- something even the combat pilots did not know until they were informed by Jan Churchill while interviewing them!
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