• YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
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      7 months ago

      Literally US doctrine since WWII. Germans whole strategy in the Battle of the Bulge was to attack while it was cloudy out, because if the sky was clear they were fucked. They got fucked as soon as the clouds cleared.

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        7 months ago

        Honestly, they were already mostly fucked before hand since a lot of their armored units were either surrounded or all of the bridges along their intended routes were blown up. The air superiority just sealed their fates

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      7 months ago

      The ground is generally found under the air, so when you have total air superiority, you actually just have total superiority.

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      7 months ago

      You can’t win a war from the air… but it makes it a whole lot fuckin’ easier.