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In the book “World war Z”, Max Brooks has the US come up with the “resource to kill ratio”; basically “how much of what resources do you need to kill one zombie?” In this world, the Airforce was basically grounded.
Obviously, in the real world you don’t have targets and enemies with nearly the sameness as zombies. How many infantry soldiers, exactly, are worth a tank? Yet there is much to the idea that we should have a military capable of carrying out the missions we assign them, yet scaled so that we can afford other national priories.
Towards that end, I have been reading a good many stories recently about the nature of the Air Force’s mission, specifically calling into question its raison d’etre as an independent branch of the military. here is a good one, it almost has me convinced: if we fold the Air Force into the Navy and Army, how much more effective might our military be?
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Is the Air Force even constitutional? I’m pretty sure it is, although there’s a constitutional question over whether it’s an Army or a Navy which affects how Congress can pass appropriations for it.
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We already have the problems between joint-strike forces in the same branch (infantry, vehicles, tanks, artillary, and scout/intel all in one unit moving together to take X city. [battalion?])
To fold the USAF in to the USArmy would be adding mayhem I imagine. HOWEVER, folding the USAF into the USN and USCG, makes rational sense, as they already have logistical support for the USAF; Aircraft carriers with their mobile flight-deck, and VTOL (helicopter) pad for search and rescue.
I imagine, being on the topic now, the USCG could be folded into the coastal states’ National Guard. Or seen as the “D.C. National Guard: Navy”