The principle Army commander is now unable to exercise any control over the air elements from which he should receive air support. And so, largely in Army periodicals we find unofficial statements of the Army’s requirements for adequate air support, with the clear implication that if the Air Force can’t or won’t do the job, the Army itself will have to provide its own air support-just as the Marine Corps does. Army officers, many of whom have never been fully satisfied with the theory or practice of existing air support doctrine, are raising the issue once more.
There has been a recent quickening of the tempo of the long-standing debate on control and missions of Air Force units employed in support of ground forces.
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