AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION SYMPOSIUM Call No.: K239.512-096 IRIS No.: 00903881 IRIS Tape No.: 00903882 C.1; 00903883 Accessibility: OPEN Pages/Time: 121pp/3:00 Class: U Date/Location: 4 April 1968/1968 AFA Convention Interviewers: Moderator/ General John Russell Blanford Sources: Project CONRONA HARVEST Collection Topics: (1964-1968) Brigadier General George B. Simler, Major General Alvan C. Gillem II, and Colonel Daniel James, Jr., et al; objectives of airpower in Southeast Asia (SEA) command and control of strike air forces within rules of engagement in-country and out-country by Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, and Seventh Air Force; airstrikes in North Vietnam (NVN) support ground war in South Vietnam (SVN); no shortage of targets; air defenses for enemy lines of communications increased; responsiveness of tactical air control system; Tet offensive of NVN and Viet Cong (VC) unsuccessful; political and psychological implications of out-country air war; role of Strategic Air Command in SEA; Arc Light, (B-52) activities such as sanctuary denial, close air support and interdiction, and Young Tiger--tanker support for tactical fighters; lessons learned even from permissive war; surface-to-air missile sites as targets; use of Fan Song radar; capability of C-5; F-111 testing in SEA; ambassadorial approval of strikes in Laos and SVN; Colonel James on "Americanism and the Black Man."