
EP13 Gladwell and the Bomber Mafia
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
You Can't Win the Vietnam War From the Air, Right?
Lemay had a series of ideas that made him in peacetime to be quite problematic. When he's running the strategic air command, he thinks he's the show. He thinks you can win Vietnam from the air. I'm not a military person, but I know enough to know that that's nonsense. You can't win. The bomber mafia whose legacy kind of looms over the contemporary Air Force, not Curtis and May.
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