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[email protected] Editor Suzann Chapman Executive Editors Adam J. Hebert, John A. Tirpak Air Supremacy in a Downdraft becomes inevitably better at fighting Senior Editor I must point out an error in your COIN, more conventional foes will Michael C. Sirak recent editorial, “Air Supremacy in seek advantages in traditional forms a Downdraft” [December, p. 2]. You of military power. We must be ready. Associate Editors state that there have been no fatal air This is not “next-war-itis”; it is simply Tamar A. Mehuron attacks on US ground forces for over an understanding of the phenomenon Marc V. Schanz 56 years. I believe that is wrong; on of war and human nature (an area Feb. 25, 1991, an Iraqi Scud missile airmen can certainly improve in). By killed some 28 service men and women increasing our credibility in the broader Contributing Editors sleeping in their barracks in Dhahran, context of the current national security Walter J. Boyne, Bruce D. Callander, Saudi Arabia. Is that what you call debate, we can show our leadership John T. Correll, Rebecca Grant, total, unquestioned, and suffocating that we are not unreasonably clinging Peter Grier, Tom Philpott air dominance provided by USAF for to past paradigms, but are rationally 56 years? assessing all the available data and Production
[email protected] Lt. Col. Tim Trusk, historical facts to form a coherent, Managing Editor USAF (Ret.) achievable way ahead. I think in the Juliette Kelsey Chagnon Kansas City, Mo.