TB7
Suggesting you can win a war with just air power is a basically flawed idea. You can bomb all you like but you will never 'connect' with the people you seek to subdue in anything other than a kinetic way. Yes, you may make short term gains but you won't achieve the long term objective. for that, you need boots on the ground and he is correct.
I beg to differ old stick. You can win wars immediately with air power, or latterly sea power, alone. You just need the resolve to make the consequences of continuing seem so bleak that your enemy is forced to make unconditional surrender...
...a lesson we seem to have forgotten having fought Bliar's little skirmishes in the past 20 years. Maybe if our backs go to the wall again in a total war and big strategic weapons are used again then those with memories of the little land-based skirmishes will be re-educated.
LJ