[vigilence]

Historically we are perpetually guity of planning future war(s) based upon the parameters of the current/last one. To scrap the USAF now because it doesn’t play a dominant role in the day to day battles of the War on Terror fails to account for the next possible war. It’s akin to saying “since all I’m doing is plumbing jobs I should scrap all of my automotive tools”. The USAF is a tool to be used for the right job ie: deterring Russian revisionism and nationalism (just to name one instance). Scrapping the B-1, B-2, B-52 etc. in favour of more A-10’s would only limit the number of arrows in our quiver. Besides, who was it that softened up Iraq’s vaunted Republican Guard so Swartzkoff and the Army could win the 100 hour war in the early ‘90’s?

[Paul Ross]

Historically we are perpetually guity of planning future war(s) based upon the parameters of the current/last one. To scrap the USAF now because it doesn’t play a dominant role in the day to day battles of the War on Terror fails to account for the next possible war. It’s akin to saying “since all I’m doing is plumbing jobs I should scrap all of my automotive tools”. The USAF is a tool to be used for the right job ie: deterring Russian revisionism and nationalism (just to name one instance). Scrapping the B-1, B-2, B-52 etc. in favour of more A-10’s would only limit the number of arrows in our quiver. Besides, who was it that softened up Iraq’s vaunted Republican Guard so Swartzkoff and the Army could win the 100 hour war in the early ‘90’s?

BUMP!