My thoughts on air power vs. land power is that it is too often seen as a zero sum game, if air power gets more budget $$, then land power loses, and vice versa. I think both areas are underfunded currently based on the recapitalization that we need to do b/c of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nonetheless, I will still offer up one of my favorite quotes in the debate. Unfortunately, I couldn't source this quote to an official site, but I do remember it from my cadet days in mililtary history.
Quote:
. . . a captured Iraqi battalion commander wryly commented:
On 17 January [1991], I started with thirty-nine tanks. After thirty-eight days of aerial attacks, I had thirty-two [tanks], but in less than twenty minutes with M1A1 [Abrams main battle tank], I had zero
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