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> No other modern military force has a separate "air force", because having it separate only complicates things when conducting a conventional ground war. Besi
by tomjakubowski 9y ago
> No other modern military force has a separate "air force", because having it separate only complicates things when conducting a conventional ground war.
Besides the US: Turkey, Syria, Russia, Israel all off the top of my head have air force and ground army (along with, at least, a navy) separate under one "Armed Forces" command.
What modern air forces operate as part of the army, rather than separately (as most navies do)?
- smacktoward 9y agoThe big one is China, where all the services are technically branches within the People's Liberation Army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Liberation_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Liberation_Army
- dragonwriter 9y agoBut, from one perspective, that doesn't mean they don't have an Air Force as a top level service, it just means the PLA is the aggregate (like “Armed Forces” of many other countries) under which the top-level services exist.
- gorkonsine 9y agoThat really doesn't sound any different than the US, it's just different naming. In the US, all four services are branches within the "Department of Defense". So US DOD = China PLA. To properly compare, you need to look at whether the air force has the same level of autonomy from the ground army as the navy does. If it does, it's just like the US. If not, it's not.