[DesScorp]

Interesting article from a liberal magazine (though the author, a professor at the University of Kentucky, has also made this argument in conservative circles as well). Though I don't necessarily want to see USAF abolished wholesale, I think we'd be better served if the Department of the Air Force was abolished and USAF was tied to the hip of the Army in the same manner that the Marine Corps is part of a sharply focused seapower force with the Navy, and subordinate to it. To a man, my Army friends, past and present, think USAF does a lousy job of air support in ground combat situations because they think the mission isn't sexy enough.

[fweingart]

Let’s abolish DOE, OSHA, FEMA, ATF, COE, staffers for congressrats, (along with free haircuts, lunches, retirement programs and expense money as well!)

[joe fonebone]

well, everybody knows the air farce is not the real military......

[snippy_about_it]

They’d be more useful if we would LET THEM BOMB THE CRAP OUT OF OUR ENEMIES. Apparantly that is no longer pc./sarc

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Abolish the Air Force, get UFOs instead.

[darkangel82]

I’m not going to read this left-wing crap. What an ungrateful, anti-military whackjob this “guy” is.

[Vision]

Nuts!

[He Rides A White Horse]

All branches serve a purpose; I would be more concerned that they adapt to the times (here and in the future).

[Berlin_Freeper]

Abolish this thread.

[llevrok]

Hey! We need our brothers in blue and gray cammo. Who else could gas up the ground pounder’s UAV’s in the future?

[neodad]

But what about all of the nice golf courses?

[Natural Law]

As a former combat infantryman I have a deep and lasting appreciation for the guys in the "Big Blue Wrecking Crew". The next most beautiful picture to me, after my wife and kids, is the image of an F4 in a close air support Napalm drop. No body can bring hurt in an enemy like they can!

The problem today is not with the Air Force, but with the policy makers. When you park the B52's you are telling the enemy and the world that there are things more important to you than military victory. More rubble means less trouble.

[ODC-GIRL]

I respectfully disagree. While the current enemy may not require a well-trained, well-equipped Air Force, tomorrow’s may be another story.

This kind of short-sightedness ALWAYS gets us in to trouble. If we had not down-sized air defense as part of the “peace dividend” at the close of the Cold War, 9-11 might not have been so tragically effective.

[FredHead47]

Thoughts?

[GreyFriar]

Back to the past?

[arthurus]

We have the Iran fight coming up and there are advocates for “boots on the ground” as being sufficient? or eeven a large component? We do not have and do not have the prospect of having sufficient boots for this concept to be viable beyond specialized applications.

[elcid1970]

Well... the air arm had been part of the U.S. Army until the National Defense Act of 1947. Reintegrating the Air Force into the Army is a good idea, IMHO.

Of course, the AmPros lefty who wrote this wants to ultimately abolish the entire American military (how `sixties’ of him), so I say,

Chuck you, Farley!

;^)

[SolidWood]

In the upcoming war with Iran, the AirForce and Navy, both so often deemed unnescessairy for the WoT, will do the lions share of fighting.

[SIDENET]

Great idea.

We have the world's most capable Air Force. Let's scrap it!

What an idiot.

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[TheWriterTX]

I will respectfully disagree with this article.

All branches serve a purpose.

There is plenty of pork we could cut in the halls of Congress.

Leave the military ALONE.