| Mike, Normally I try and retain some decorum (difficult for a warrant officer, I know) but I have to say this was one of the sorriest uses of PowerPoint I have ever seen, and if these two gentlemen got a good grade for this drivel in whatever course they were taking, Lord help us. I cannot believe in this day and age Maxwell has NOTHING better for references than the now essentially discredited Futrell tome and other rah-rah pieces from the early 1950s. There are dozens of Russian articles and books out there, and (admittedly this was done in 1998) now they even have hired people like Xiaoming Zhang to work there at the Air University! I also find it very hard to believe in an age of "jointness" that they could carry out any sort of study without focusing on the jointness of the actions -- viewing USAF actions in isolation in Korea, of all places, is patently ridiculous. Korea in many respects was the first modern "joint" war where all of the services had to work closely together -- and to add insult to injury, they do not look at the vital role played by transport aircraft in Korea, either. If Maxwell was smart, they would remove this particularly noisome briefing from their selection list before some knucklehead figures the USAF still believes its 1953 propaganda. But if they do not -- and the Air University staff buys this as "fact" -- we are going to have some real problems in the future. Cookie Sewell AMPS |