Why is the USAF still infatuated with bombers?
"Fighters make movies, bombers make history." Or so the saying goes. It's hard to imagine aerial warfare without bombers. They have certainly "made history". What would WWII have been like without squadrons of B-17s flying over Nazi Germany? How long would the war have gone on if the B-29 "Enola Gay" hadn't dropped the world's first atomic bomb over Hiroshima? Would the Cold War have played out differently if B-52s and Tu-95s didn't stand at constant readiness armed with nuclear "deterrence"? One has to wonder if the bomber's ability to "make history" is still relevant, however. The days of carpet bombing have (thankfully) been mostly put behind us thanks to startling images from the Vietnam war . The era of televised warfare put the horrors of battle front and center on the living room TV set. B-52s flying over Hanoi weren't dropping tons of explosives on military targets and "evil...