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.”
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.