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DTIC ADA424803: The Fabric of Air Warfare; Doctrine, Operational Experience, and Integration of Strategic and Tactical Air Power From World War I Through World War II

There presently exists a real and growing interest in questions of how air power can and should be employed in warfighting. One of the more pressing questions in recent years in the US Air Force has been the matter of how best to achieve the integration of tactical and strategic air power in the employment arena. These concerns over the employment of the elements of air power which are frequently described as tactical and strategic are not new, for they precede World War II. However, during World War I and World War II, airmen learned a great deal about how best to employ air power, and because we spend so little time in studying to any depth these issues, the Air Force has seemingly forgotten its own history. Indeed, the integrated employment of the tactical and strategic elements of air power has been very much the norm in war.

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