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To: stockman_scott who wrote (60624)	12/8/2002 4:38:35 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<<My Air Force brothers ad nauseam claim that air power won the gulf war. I can categorically state that air power did not win the gulf war or any war since flying's inception in 1903. I never saw a cruise missile but did hear them going overhead--very impressive but no effect on the rascals I was fighting.>>>> Thanks for presenting position of a great spokeman for the important ground side of a war. But now, as a past member of a B-29 team, I would say that air-power eliminated most if not all of the need for US tanks in Japan.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (60624)	12/9/2002 3:48:37 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi stockman_scott; Some notes on the E. W. Chamberlain article; Re: "The Crusader Gun System would have resolved that artillery gap, but it has been canceled by people who have never been under artillery fire." I agree. I, and others, have commented at length on the Crusader. Maybe now is a good time to link some of those posts together: #reply-17564639 #reply-17569097 #reply-17569714 #reply-17454908 #reply-17569687 #reply-17575648 #reply-17575408 #reply-17575788 #reply-17575814 #reply-17575843 #reply-17575850 #reply-17575896 #reply-17577801 #reply-17577886 #reply-17577925 #reply-17579466 Re: "Air power did not win [Gulf] war My Air Force brothers ad nauseam claim that air power won the gulf war. I can categorically state that air power did not win the gulf war or any war since flying's inception in 1903." That air power, other than close tactical support was ineffective in the Gulf War was shown by a General Accounting Office study of military effectiveness. I linked the article into the thread here: #reply-18018386 Of course the air power weanies say that the next war will be different, but Iraq had the best terrain they've ever had to prove their contention which is now 100 years old and looking as weak as the argument by Malthus (written in 1798) that the world would soon run out of food, but which is also still believed, LOL. -- Carl