Smartest thing the USAF has said in years?

[bayonetbrant]

From the State of the Air Force briefing back in January
http://www.defense.gov/News/News-Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/606995

Q: Do you think that there's just too much emphasis at the moment on the air part of the equation, that everyone thinks you're going -- from the air, you can defeat ISIS, you can defeat Al Qaeda in Yemen, when defeat may not be what is possible from the air?


GEN. WELSH: No, I don't think, speaking specifically to ISIS, that the -- that the DOD approach is not to defeat ISIS from the air. The intent is to inhibit ISIS, to attrite ISIS, to slow ISIS down, to give a ground force time to be trained because the ground force will be required.


You -- you don't dictate end states from the air. You can't control territory. You can't influence people. You can't maintain lines of control after you've established them. That will take a ground force -- in this case, a coalition ground force that's being trained now to try and make that effort, and we'll support it from the air.

[Centurion40]

They have spiffy hats too!

[Sir Slash]

Are those the Sky Marshals from Starship Troopers?

[Gusington]

Imperial Air Dragoons?

[Steelgrave]

They kinda remind me of this guy.....

                             

[Nefaro]

Are those the Sky Marshals from Starship Troopers?

That's exactly what I was thinking.  ;D

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