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In the 1960s, the US Air Drive lacked both the equipment and properly trained pilots to make sure air superiority because the Tactical Air Command word (TAC) acquired become bit more than a handmaiden to the Strategic Air Command word (SAC). TAC targeted mostly on the interdiction of opponent bombers and nearly ignored its other duties, such as providing close support of earth troops with regular weaponry and the interdiction of opponent fighters within the battlefield. Its airplane were designed to journey at supersonic speeds and throw long-range, radar-guided missiles at large, lumbering bombers and not to activate in dog fights with highly maneuverable MiGs. Its leading fighter, the F-4 Phantom, lacked an interior cannon that was so essential to the achievement of TAC's mission, and its own pilot training programs were ill-suited for mid-air warfare over Southeast Asia. The arrival of surface-to-air-missiles in North Vietnam in 1965 also found air Drive with neither the tactics nor the weaponry had a need to neutralize that danger. Hannah talks about how TAC struggled through the warfare in Vietnam to emerge in the 1970s as the best-equipped and best-trained tactical air drive on earth. He side-steps politics and inter-service rivalries to concentrate on the nut products and bolts of tactical air electric power. The result is a factual, informative consideration of how an air drive loses its way and discovers its mission again. The e book is publicized by Texas A&M University Press.
