Why the US Air Force was the most worthless creation the United States ever made.

The fallacy of strategic bombing and fixed air bases in the era of modern war.

"Our country spent millions of dollars on the so called "Peacekeeper" strategic bomber and for what? They sit back in the United States like over priced display cars. I have done far more with the U.S. Navy and Marines in Korea than the Air Force could possibly provide.

General Douglas MacArthur 1950

MacArthur lands at Leyte during the US Invasion to liberate the Philippines in 1944

    One might wonder why, upon his death in 1965, was General MacArthur buried in Norfolk, Virginia (A Navy/Marine Corps centered city) and not at West Point or Arlington National Cemetary. Why? Because he was the Navy's general not the armies.

    MacArthur understood the absolute fallacy that's called the United States Air Force, the most worthless duplication of military assets and by far the most politically poisoned among the four branches of the military. MacArthur also understood that fixed based air forces are about as useful in modern war as a pop gun. MacArthur was the author of classic US Naval/Land battle strategy, the concept of mobile tactical warfare which served the United States well in the Western Pacific Campaign. MacArthur's mastery resulted in less US casualties and swifter victories than the bloody campaign led by Admiral Chester Nimitz and General Curtis Lee May in the central pacific.

     The idea of "Strategic Bombing" was created by the then US Army Air Corps before World War II around the belief that if you bombed the hell out of your enemy, he would have no choice but to surrender. It was this fallacy that led to the political creation of the United States Air Force in 1948 when the US War Department became the Department of Defense. The United States Air Force central mission is and always has been in "Strategic" terms and it has used that mission as a political sword to justify its bloated and worthless existence.

     Strategic Bombing and Strategic Air Forces have never stopped nor prevented war. The United States spent billions of dollars bombing cities in Japan and Germany en masse, sending thousands of men to their deaths and it did not bring Germany or Japan to swift surrender. Germany only surrendered after a horrific ground campaign that ended in Berlin and Japan only surrendered after the atomic bombs were unleashed. If the same type of murderous warfare were unleashed today, as it has been in Aleppo, Syria, it would be a war crime.

     Strategic bombing did not stop North Korea's 1950 invasion of South Korea. It did not stop the North Vietnamese eventual take over of South Vietnam. It has not ended the war in Afghanistan. You simply can not affect any change in the course of war through "Strategic bombing"

     The Air Force is an obsolete concept and a bloated agency which sucks up billions of dollars better spent to equip a time tested and proven military concept; one air force tied to a strong mobile force who's effect can touch 90 percent of the world's land masses.

The B-36 Gold Chicken never served in Korea.

      When the Air Force was created in 1948, it promised that the very threat of nuclear weapons and nuclear armed strategic bombers would make war obsolete. It lied to Congress, it paid off influential leaders and schemed to destroy both the US Navy and the US Marines so it could take their budgets and melt them into its ever out of control spending accounts and worthless projects like the B-36 Peacemaker bomber.

     Then came Korea. In June of 1950, North Korean despot Kim Il Sung invaded South Korea. When informed of the North Korean offensive, General MacArthur didn't unleash the Peacemakers...he unleashed the 7th fleet. Within  days the carriers of the 7th fleet were conducting round the clock tactical strikes against the North Korean Offensive and its supply lines. It was the Navy, not the Air Force which blunted the North Korean assault and paved the way for MacArthur's mastery at Inchon.

    Strategic warfare (Bombers and land based ICBM's) makes no sense in 2016 where technology exists to give greater power and effect to a single service built for mobile warfare. The Air Force waste billions of dollars around the United States in land based airfields that have no tactical or common sense purpose when they are so vulnerable to the modern weapons of this day.

   

The Navy and Marine Corps are the only logical way of employing US military power which makes a concrete and tangible impact in war. North Vietnam was not brought to the Paris Peace Talks in 1972 because US B-52 Bombers made big holes around Hanoi, they were brought to the peace table by the skillful employment of US Naval Air Power which mined the harbors and struck the supporting infrastructure of the country with deadly effect, suffering few casualties among the air crews while sparing thousands of lives otherwise destroyed by indiscriminate Air force bombers. The continued existence of a United States Air Force simply makes no sense.