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Originally posted by Spanky
Is that true? Really? I knew there was inter-service rivalry but that is just plain stupid. So what they are saying is that lets go bomb strategic and tactical targets that may or may not help us win the war in the long run insteading of destroying tanks that are just about to kill our own soldiers.
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Yes. Although a different way to put it is that they have a different view about what's effective.
The Army does the same sort of thing -- because it's allowed to have helicopters, but not fixed-wing ground-support aircraft, it has made a major, major investment in trying to build examples of the former to function as the latter. To mixed results, at best. There were good reasons for the Army to have cold feet about deploying the helicopters against a relatively advanced air-defense system in Albania, as illustrated by the problems they had when they tried that major helo operation in Iraq.
