PETRAEUS: "And I should just note for the the watchers, I said that I was — as I was commanding the 101st Airborne Division during the fight to Baghdad and watching as the assumptions we had been provided in Kuwait were being invalidated one by one, and it was a bit of a rhetorical question, and I forgot that I was on the record with my embedded reporter at that time, Rick Atkinson, the great journalist and historian. Look, in this case, I actually see the military missions being accomplished fairly steadily here. The trajectory is very good. You know, first and foremost, of course, they went after the air and ballistic missile defenses, took those down, whatever had been reconstituted after the Israelis took them apart in the early days of the 12-day air campaign. And that‘s crucial, because we don‘t want to be restricted to just the F-35 stealth fighter bombers and the B-2 stealth bombers. We want to bring in the big ones, the B-52s, the B-1 bombers, and they are flying now almost at will. I would argue that we have actually achieved air supremacy, not just air superiority.”
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Ret. Gen. Petraeus: We’ve Achieved Air Supremacy, Not Just Air Superiority in Iran‘We want to bring in the big ones, the B-52s, the B-1 bombers, and they are flying now almost at will’News & Politics,InternationalEXCERPT:PETRAEUS: "And I should just note for the the watchers, I said that I was — as I was commanding the 101st Airborne Division during the fight to Baghdad and watching as the assumptions we had been provided in Kuwait were being invalidated one by one, and it was a bit of a rhetorical question, and I forgot that I was on the record with my embedded reporter at that time, Rick Atkinson, the great journalist and historian. Look, in this case, I actually see the military missions being accomplished fairly steadily here. The trajectory is very good. You know, first and foremost, of course, they went after the air and ballistic missile defenses, took those down, whatever had been reconstituted after the Israelis took them apart in the early days of the 12-day air campaign. And that‘s crucial, because we don‘t want to be restricted to just the F-35 stealth fighter bombers and the B-2 stealth bombers. We want to bring in the big ones, the B-52s, the B-1 bombers, and they are flying now almost at will. I would argue that we have actually achieved air supremacy, not just air superiority.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview
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