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Originally Posted by Growler
This guy would beg to differ with you, vis a vis CAS; my only addition would be that the Soviets & Germans both had the need to develop CAS a lot sooner than did the US, as we weren't even engaged in large-scale land combat until Africa in 42, where the Russians and Germans had been throwing a lot of lead at each other for a couple of years already.
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I did some research and it seems like General Quesada had the right idea, thanks for bringing him to my attention. However, his ideas did not win out. The US never really adopted CAS as a combat doctrine during the war. Unescorted daylight strategic bombing with massive losses were the rule at the time. Such results would suggest that something about the military system itself needed to be changed. Even then, it took almost 40 years for the US military to concede that the German military model for CAS was superior by all but completely adopting it, along with virtually every other aspect of it. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark and it isn't the Germans.