Unbelievable.
We take air superiority so much for granted, it is going to come back and bite us in a way that is going to shock us to the core. You know how shocked the British soldiers, sailors, government and people were when the Americans defeated them at Yorktown and “Turned the World Upside Down”? THAT is what it is going to be like for us when these “choices” go bad.
We depend on air superiority for the success of our armed forces. For our ground troops, our ships at sea, and nearly every single thing you can relate to.
We have been spoiled, because we have had adults in charge most of the time who understood this necessity, and worked towards maintaining it. We have had air superiority in every single engagement of any kind from the end of WWII up until today.
If we do not maintain control of the skies and cede that to our next enemy, we will see American blood shed in ways we have not seen since WWII.
We won’t be able to supply and transport our troops by air. Helicopters are sitting ducks for the enemy if they control the air. We won’t even be able to medevac.
Our supply columns will be destroyed, as will our tank formations. Our ships at sea will suffer the same fate.
In the same way that nearly the entire food chain from livestock down to corn is dependent on water, military power is dependent on air power. Without it, you cannot have and project military power.
It is really that simple, and it is why we must keep and maintain A-10s, reopen F-22 production (or develop a worthy replacement) and purchase F-35s or whatever the future is there. But we know that isn’t going to happen. Liberals have the levers of power, and they are hell bent on destroying our military.
When this goes bad, the people responsible will be nowhere to be found. They will scream the loudest in outrage, but the blame will be on everyone else but them.
I agree with air superiority, and would join it with “space”...which really is air.
Heinlein in “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” really did give folks something to ponder with his story of a revolt on the moon.
I can’t believe they are gutting the military like this.