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75 The Air and Space Nation is in Peril By Colonel Philip S Meilinger The function of the Army and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm. (Gen James Doolittle) This is a good news, bad news story. The United States is the world’s first and only air and space nation. That fact is evidenced in our dominance of air and space technology and infrastructure, as well as in the future visions shared by our political, economic, military, and cultural leaders. This domination has important implications for our national security. Unfortunately, many Americans have come to view air and space dominance as their birthright. It is not, and troubles are brewing, so we must take steps now to ensure our dominance in the future. Americans have always looked to technology to ease their problems, so they took naturally and quickly to air and space power — the epitome of advanced technology. America was the birthplace of aviation, and it is now difficult to imagine life without our television satellites, cell phones,
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FOREWORD The leading article for th
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AIR POWER Review Editor Jay Myers P
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1 Air Aspects of Operation Iraqi Fr
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3 Crown Copyright The night of 21/2
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5 A global hawk UAV had been operat
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7 On 13 April, less than 800 sortie
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DMPIs by Op Cat Qty 11 Counter Air
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As with Operation DESERT STORM, the
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Air power can still be employed aut
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19 or non-kinetic. Furthermore, the
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21 60 ‘By the Numbers’. 90 Op c
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Page 62 and 63: 54 subsonic Soviet MiG-15s and MiG-
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