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1. In the early years of this conflict, the haphazard application of air power resulted in conditions where a few noted individuals could rack up a big score
2. Virtually every possibility in the development of air power had been, or would be tried
3. Air power alone could not win a war
4. But MacArthur had submitted a list of 26 “retardation targets” for A-bombs plus four more A-bombs to target Chinese ground troops and four to use against Chinese air power concentrations
5. What about using air power on the government of Sudan? Couldn’t that pressure them to stop arming the militias? Perhaps, but Sudan has been bombed by the US before
6. Let the USAF keep the air superiority mission and the strategic bombing mission and high altitude reconnaissance mission, the Army ground commander wanted immediate and complete control over the air power that supported his troops
7. McCone, DCI (Director Central Intelligence Agency), had told SecState Dean Rusk and SecDef Robert McNamara that he had grave misgivings about sending American men into ground battle while shackling the use of air power up North
8. First he revelled in the annihilation of a community that legally doesn't exist, and second, with the downing of the helicopter he lost half of his air power
9. The second phase will target both the carrier-borne and the land-based Japanese air power
10. Since Billy Mitchell proved the ability to sink a battle ship from the air, the importance and capability of air power has done nothing but increase
11. On the 10th of December, just three days after Pearl Harbour; HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse under the command of an admiral totally disbelieving in air power, also made history by becoming the first capital ships to be sunk from the air in open sea
12. With great reluctance it was now accepted that naval air power had come of age
13. Nevertheless, these ludicrous assumptions accurately reflect the Western underestimation of Japanese air power and this is best illustrated by the reliance they placed upon the antiquated Brewster Buffalo fighter plane
14. On the one hand there was the prospect of the RAF's destructive air power, and on the other the Führer was threatening that unless the ships were brought home he would dismantle them
15. To take them by the northern route round Scotland, which had proved a grave for the Bismarck, would subject them to enemy air power operating from land plus the superior Anglo-American battle fleets
16. Despite their best efforts, Malaya’s aerial defenders were at the mercy of an enemy that was vastly superior in air power
17. But Allied superior air power was seen as the solution to this problem
18. Rommel disagreed and vehemently argued that Allied air power would disrupt Rundstedt’s plan
19. I can tell you this, though: when it comes to the application of air power in support of joint operations, she is an absolute master without equal
20. with Hill, Mountain Home, and Nellis AFB as the air powers of Deseret
21. In a long-range war that would hinge on air power, that detail was crucial
22. When the terrible story of Lucy's death, and all that followed, was done, I lay back in my chair powerless
23. The Air Power Collection (2002):