War Department Field Manual 100-20, reflecting lessons of North Africa Campaign, states: “Land power and airpower are co-equal and interdependent forces; neither is an auxiliary of the other.”
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. assumed leadership of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, succeeding Navy Adm. John Aquilino at a change of command ceremony, urging action amid China's “increasing intrusive and expansionist claims,” on May 3