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Originally Posted by Brian
What I would like to see:
Europe, USA and Russia and China all pool knowledge and air power - and act as one good force to defeat evil IS. Then perhaps there would be greater unity between West and East, for the good of us all.
And I would like to see the non-terrorist Muslims come out on the streets in Britain and Europe to denounce terrorism.
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Hello Brian,
Pooling air power with Russia and China is not a possibility. For Russia, see how it uses air power indiscriminately in Syria -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesD9IOyPoY and how it deploys aircraft on the occupied territory of its neighbour -
http://europe.newsweek.com/russia-te...-crimea-332670 . For China, see the nature of its military modernisation, directed at the US -
https://twq.elliott.gwu.edu/sites/tw...h-Erickson.pdf .
As for European Muslims, here is a story which shows just how inconsistent and duplicitous attitudes to air power are in Europe -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5218036.stm .
To return to Richard's original intention, historical analogies and experiences with air power, I would like to remind members that RAF air power was decisively and quite unnecessarily weakened in the years preceding the Second World War. Much the same is happening now.
Warm regards,
Paul