“Absent the air power, the US ground forces would have been in seriously adverse fights. Yep.”
Who advocated eliminating Air Power? Not the author of the article, and certainly not myself. The author suggested eliminating the Air Force bureaucratic entity, not airpower. NO ONE is advocating that airpower be ignored, far from it. The author’s argument, agree or not, was that USAF could actually be hindering many of the aerial missions. He never said, “yeah, stupid airplanes, lets get rid of them”. He’s simply advocating the return of those missions to the Army for the most part, and divying up a few of them to the Navy and USMC.