Luftkrieg im 21. Jahrhundert

[Quintus Fabius]

Weiß nicht so recht wo ich den folgenden Artikel vernetzen soll, daher mal hier:

Dominating the Skies — and Losing the Wars

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U.S. pilots currently have not just air superiority or air supremacy, but total mastery of the fabled “high ground” of war. And yet in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the Greater Middle East, while the U.S. rules the skies in an uncontested way, America’s conflicts rage on with no endgame in sight.

For all its promise of devastating power delivered against enemies with remarkable precision and quick victories at low cost — at least to Americans — air power has failed to deliver, not just in the ongoing war on terror but for decades before it.

If anything, by providing an illusion of results, it has helped keep the United States in unwinnable wars.