Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
I regret today's deconfliction craze would not allow for this. It has become a self-licking ice cone, an end in itself.
Fuchs,

Deconfliction will always be necessary, even in Afghanistan. Afghanistan does have a lot of airspace, but aircraft tend to congregate in certain areas. If there is, for example, a big firefight going on then a variety of aircraft need to operate in the vicinity of that event and those aircraft have to be deconflicted. You are also misinformed about AWACs in Afghanistan.