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To: 2oldfdrs
We haven't even hardly utilized the strategic arm of the Air Force.

Exactly. The US air power can absolutely demolish all of Iran military infrastructures, command and control centers, and their nuclear facilities, with extremely small losses on our side.

25 posted on 12/22/2006 11:14:47 PM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: jveritas; 2oldfdrs

BUT it ain't airpower that will ever win a war. That turf ain't yours until some 18-year-old kid with a rifle goes in and stands on it and plants the flag on it. Air is useful in SUPPORTING that kid, though, make no mistake about it. When I was in, during and subsequent to Vietnam, Marine Air (my helos) would haul the grunts around, resupply them, haul out their dead and wounded and then the fixed wing guys would fly close support for them. (Oh, and the Navy would send the USS New Jersey or some of the 8" gunned cruisers out to provide naval gunfire support, something sorely lacking these days. One of the really fun things I would LOVE to see would be a Time on Target of all nine 16-inch guns off a battlewagon. From a very SAFE distance, of course. But eighteen tons of high explosive going off all at once would be a sight to behold, not to mention the flame-wall when the guns went off!!!) But it was the grunts who were and are truly "kings of the hill" for going out and taking that turf and paying the butcher's bill to do it. (And then, in Vietnam, unlike ANY of our previous wars, we'd give back that turf to the VC or NVA, until some dic?head decided we needed to pay another butcher's bill to take it back again, for another week or two.)


26 posted on 12/23/2006 12:02:51 AM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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