title: The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America's Vietnam War
author:  John M. Shaw 
description: "Along with the tactics, Shaw does an excellent job discussing intelligence, logistics, and command problems."<b><i>Paper Wars</i></b>
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  To War in Style
  
  
  
  by MARK BERENT
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright (C) 1991 Mark Berent
  
  All Rights Reserved
  
  Rev 05/01/20
  
  
  
  
  
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  ROLLING THUNDER
  
  STEEL TIGER
  
  PHANTOM LEADER
  
  EAGLE STATION
  
  STORM FLIGHT
  
  
  
  
  
    
  To War in Style
  
  ![Mark Berent with Khmers](Image00000.jpg)
  
  In the January of 1973 we in the Defense Attache Office (DAO) in the American
  Embassy, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, found ourselves in an unusual situation.
  President Nixon had declared his Southeast Asia policy of Vietnamization was
  succeeding. In Vietnam, all U.S. forces were ordered to cease fighting and
  that included air assets as well as the ground troops.
  
  
  
  In Cambodia (also known as the Khmer Republic), the situation was quite
  different. With the exception of the “incursion” in 1970, U.S. ground forces
  never had a fighting role in Cambodia. Starting with the opening of the
  American Embassy,  also in 1970 after the Lon Nol coup depos