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Old 15th Aug 2010, 07:06
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Chicken Leg
 
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A chap with less understanding of air power than your average girl guide but a somewhat great reliance on it.
You're right. A full Colonel, who worked in MOD MB, Strategic Planner, led his Regiment into war etc etc. But he's not RAF, so can't possibly understand Air Power - a critical support element of fighting troops on the ground! I'd suggest that he and other Army commanders have a far better understanding of Air Power, it's strengths and limitations and how to best utilise it, to a far better degree than your average poster on here - RAF or other!

You chaps seem to confuse the argument. Making a case for disbanding the RAF does not mean no understanding of the importance for Air Power. It simply means that a bloated and fat organisation's roles could be completed by other slightly less bloated and fat organisations.

Will it happen? Of course not. Should it happen? Of course not.
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