Air superiority is supposed to deliver a quick triumph. But history has shown that promise to be written on the wind
To explore the roots of Donald Trump’s Iran military strategy and the pugnacious rhetoric of his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, means looking back 105 years. In 1921, a year before Benito Mussolini and his blackshirts marched on Rome to launch the Fascist era, an Italian general named Giulio Douhet published The Command of the Air, proposing a revolution in warfare.
Victory in the future, he said, would no longer come from the grinding trench combat of the great war. Instead it meant large-scale aerial bombardments, targeting not just combatants but civilians and civilian infrastructure and logistics.
“[It] is much more important to destroy a railroad station, a bakery, a war plant, or to machine-gun a supply column, moving trains, or any other behind-the-lines objective, than to strafe or bomb a trench.
After air superiority was obtained.
True, and I’m not saying air superiority is not useful or critical, but it alone does not and cannot win a war. Your own example proves that wrong.
Yeah but even the ground war needed a clear plan, coordination with allies, and the other stuff I’m too drunk/high to remember.
Certainly can’t disagree with that
What you are failing to see is that air superiority is a component, not THE ONLY COMPONENT necessary.