Call me an amateur airpower interlocutor, but when I see the pilgrimmage of the blue-suited horde to the annual convention of the Air Force Association at the Wardman Park Hotel this week, I want to ask the pilgrims with the stars on their shoulders and the self-satisfied smiles of ex-fighter jocks a few fundamental questions, and those questions are these:
Why is that -- 60 years after the air force was born -- so many people are still struggling to define just what in the wild blue yonder is an air force supposed to, you know, do?
Is airpower applied in isolation of a combined arms strategy really a contradiction of the term "power"?
How more or less effective would the US Army be today if its air arm was never allowed to separate and develop its standalone theories of airpower?
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