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The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the participants, not of Reuters News. I mean it is the case to abolish the United States Air Force but the way to think about it Force was actually part of the U.S. Army.

Nowadays, the Army has helicopters and transport planes,

the Marines have their own fighter jets,

naval aviators are as renowned as their Air Force colleagues,

and they fly missions against ground-based targets.

This week on War College, we talk with a man who believes the Air Force should be disbanded,

that having it separate from the Army does little beyond creating a bureaucracy.

In fact, he argues a separate Air Force

has changed the nature of warfare and not in a good way. You're listening to War College, a weekly discussion of a world in conflict focusing

on the stories behind the front lies. Here's your host, Jason Fields.

Hello and welcome to War College. I'm Jason Fields with Reuters.

And I'm Matthew Galt, contributing editor at Wars Boring.

The American military loves bombing campaigns. From Iraq to Libya and beyond, strategic air

campaigns have been a cornerstone of recent US military strategy and in fact even

back to Vietnam when we tried to bomb Hanoi back to the Stone Age.

But do they work?

Robert Farley is a professor of national security at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the

University of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky.

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