Alert bombers would strike enemy until arrival of AEF

The U.S. Air Force plans to use conventionally armed bombers on alert to attack an enemy in the earliest stages of a conflict until an Air Expeditionary Force of fighters and other assets can get to the theater. The service is promoting the alert bomber force, or armed bomber initiative, as being...

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