Understanding Airpower: Bonfire of the Fallacies

[Norfolk]

I was about to become worried enough to get a couple of Pats to come look for you...

I'm armed, dangerous, and have a beer fridge full of booze, and I'm not afraid to use it (the contents of said beer fridge that is...).

Work, amongst other things (but on a break now - finally).

Entropy wrote:

Just read the new issue of the Air and Space Power Journal and some more cows get slaughtered:

To begin with is this interesting article arguing that the AF should make CAS it's basic function and not counter-air:

What that article is proposing is not just about slaughtering sacred cows; it's about turning the entire AF into hamburger. While I have to admit to a certain level of satisfaction with the author's observations and proposals (but, these feelings are wrong...), I have some doubts. In my dream world I would still like to see the Army taking over CAS, tactical air transport, and a few other things, and let the AF do the whole Air Defence bit (excepting tactical/low-level AD for the Army), strategic airlift, and the like. Intriguing article, though. Sort of fits in some ways with Gray's latest piece.