Apparently, "America Does Not Need the Air Force"

[Wolf424]

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/ff4662469f95

The big strategic campaigns, including the Combined Bomber Offensive in World War II and Rolling Thunder and Linebacker II in Vietnam, witnessed the expenditure of tremendous sums of men, money and aircraft to limited and ambiguous strategic effect.

Ambiguous strategic effect? I'm going to go out on a limb and say the bombing of Honshu (Japan's main island) and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a very large strategic effect...as in ending WWII.

A short google search shows that this guy has written numerous papers about the Navy. (https://www.uky.edu/~rmfarl2/Farleycv.htm) Including "The Future of US Naval Power" (is that bias I smell?)

[Lord Ratner]

The real question is, if the Navy's primary mission these days is projection of Air Power all over the globe, why do we waste our time with a separate service (Navy) when we could just keep the support assets together. Or to put it in his words: Separating naval military assets from the air assets they organically support makes no more sense than the creation of separate arms for tanks and submarines.

[brabus]

the Navy's primary mission these days is projection of Air Power landing on bo-ats

Fixed.

[GrndPndr]

https://medium.com/w...ng/ff4662469f95

Ambiguous strategic effect? I'm going to go out on a limb and say the bombing of Honshu (Japan's main island) and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a very large strategic effect...as in ending WWII.

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Yep, and...

Linebacker I and II had a direct correlation with positive (from our standpoint) NV diplomatic activity in Paris with Kissinger.

FM

[AnimalMother]

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/ff4662469f95

Ambiguous strategic effect? I'm going to go out on a limb and say the bombing of Honshu (Japan's main island) and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a very large strategic effect...as in ending WWII.

Debatable.

[deaddebate]

Why America Needs The Air Force: Rebuttal To Prof. Farley