Posted on May 4, 2020
America must build bomber capacity to compete in the Pacific
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Strategic bombers give us options and complicate the enemy's problem in ways fighters cannot. When a fighter pilot talks about range, he's talking hundreds of nm. When a bomber pilot talks about range, he's talking thousands of nm. Look at a map of China and notice the border with Kazakhstan, the other '-stans, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar. Bombers can go the other way 'round.
America must build bomber capacity to compete in the Pacific
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11BX: Bomber Pilot
B-52H Pilot
Strategy
China
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I sometimes wonder if no force is better than half a force. It seems that we spend just as much maintaining an inadequate force as we do in maintaining an adequate one.
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Col Joseph Lenertz
Yes but it can be depressing if you allow yourself to think about it that way. I suppose we COULD withdraw from the western pacific entirely, but it's not just nature that abhors a vacuum.
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CPT Jack Durish
Col Joseph Lenertz - My point is that a half-assed force is as good as none, and see how the Chinese are already filling that vacuum...
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