Wald: Close air support emerging as top priority

A top U.S. Air Force general said the Pentagon's resurgent interest in what has long been considered an operational backwater - close air support missions - can be traced to the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and the subsequent planning for an invasion of Afghanistan...

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