Re: Navy and Desert Storm

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1 total messages Started by Markus Stumptner Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:06

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Author: Markus Stumptner
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:06

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From Markus Stumptner <mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

>From Charles.K.Scott@dartmouth.edu (Charles K. Scott)
> In the recently published book "Storm over Iraq" by Richard P. Hallion,
> He felt that in a strategic war, as opposed to
> a single tactical strike, the carriers were not very effective. 

Wow, how fast people can forget.  Hallion must have been born after
the Falklands War.  The British were not happy about having scrapped
their last fleet carrier the year before.

Simply put, there are cases where *nothing* but carriers is available,
because you simply don't have the bases available, and nobody knows
whether those might not be in the majority in the future.  B-52 long
range strikes probably don't cut it for CAS.

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