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Grounded - The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force (Paperback)
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Grounded - The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy and Peace
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The United States needs airpower, but does it need an air force? In
Grounded, Robert M. Farley persuasively argues that America should
end the independence of the United States Air Force (USAF) and
divide its assets and missions between the United States Army and
the United States Navy. In the wake of World War I, advocates of
the Air Force argued that an organizationally independent air force
would render other military branches obsolete. These boosters
promised clean, easy wars: airpower would destroy cities beyond the
reach of the armies and would sink navies before they could reach
the coast. However, as Farley demonstrates, independent air forces
failed to deliver on these promises in World War II, the Korean
War, the Vietnam War, the first Gulf War, the Kosovo conflict, and
the War on Terror. They have also had perverse effects on foreign
and security policy, as politicians have been tempted by the vision
of devastating airpower to initiate otherwise ill-considered
conflicts. The existence of the USAF also produces turf wars with
the Navy and the Army, leading to redundant expenditures,
nonsensical restrictions on equipment use, and bad tactical
decisions. Farley does not challenge the idea that aircraft
represent a critical component of America's defenses; nor does he
dispute that -- especially now, with the introduction of unmanned
aerial vehicles -- airpower is necessary to modern warfare. Rather,
he demonstrates that the efficient and wise use of airpower does
not require the USAF as presently constituted. An intriguing
scholarly polemic, Grounded employs a wide variety of primary and
secondary source materials to build its case that the United States
should now correct its 1947 mistake of having created an
independent air force.
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