It really never ceases to amaze me the American / USAF mentality of easily forgetting important combat lessons! . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pioneer

All you wrote was spot on, I think. Excatly the same things that has puzzled me

Can’t remember the title, but read a book about the painfull and difficult birth of the A-10 and the concept behind it. (in which the A-16 concept also was mentioned as a competitor) It was a “bloody” affair. If I remeber clearly, it almost stopped (Stopped?) some senior officers careers to fight for the A-10.