The intense bombing was a major escalation intended to compel North Vietnam back to negotiations and had significant military, diplomatic, and humanitarian consequences.
President Nixon ordered a concentrated aerial bombing campaign—Operation Linebacker II—against North Vietnam beginning heavy B-52 strikes on Hanoi and Haiphong on December 18, 1972.
The intense bombing was a major escalation intended to compel North Vietnam back to negotiations and had significant military, diplomatic, and humanitarian consequences.
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