“The Air Force is sticking by its guns, portraying the Warthog as a limited aircraft ...”
Head firmly planted between their buttcheeks I see.
Would be nice to stick those in charge out under direct enemy contact, have them call for CAS and be told, “we have no warthogs because of you. But we do have saturation bombers!”
“Limited” they mean basically a single mission aircraft: CAS.
Can do some battlefield BAI but when it comes to deep strike or A/A missions, not so much.