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title="Air support">Air support</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Air missions coordinated with ground combat</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Close_Air_Support_training_at_the_Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range_110923-F-MQ656-179.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Close_Air_Support_training_at_the_Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range_110923-F-MQ656-179.jpg/250px-Close_Air_Support_training_at_the_Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range_110923-F-MQ656-179.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Close_Air_Support_training_at_the_Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range_110923-F-MQ656-179.jpg/330px-Close_Air_Support_training_at_the_Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range_110923-F-MQ656-179.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Close_Air_Support_training_at_the_Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range_110923-F-MQ656-179.jpg/500px-Close_Air_Support_training_at_the_Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range_110923-F-MQ656-179.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4256" data-file-height="2832" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">U.S. Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/Joint_terminal_attack_controller" title="Joint terminal attack controller">joint terminal attack controllers</a> watching an <a href="/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II" title="Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II">A-10 Thunderbolt II</a> provide close air support during a <a href="/wiki/Live_fire_exercise" title="Live fire exercise">live fire exercise</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Military_tactics" title="Military tactics">military tactics</a>, <b>close air support</b> (<b>CAS</b>) is defined as <a href="/wiki/Aerial_warfare" title="Aerial warfare">aerial warfare</a> actions—often air-to-ground actions such as <a href="/wiki/Strafing" title="Strafing">strafes</a> or <a href="/wiki/Airstrike" title="Airstrike">airstrikes</a>—by <a href="/wiki/Military_aircraft" title="Military aircraft">military aircraft</a> against hostile targets in close proximity to friendly forces. A form of <a href="/wiki/Fire_support" title="Fire support">fire support</a>, CAS requires detailed integration of each air mission with fire and movement of all forces involved. CAS may be conducted using <a href="/wiki/Aerial_bomb" title="Aerial bomb">aerial bombs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glide_bomb" title="Glide bomb">glide bombs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Missile" title="Missile">missiles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rocket_(weapon)" title="Rocket (weapon)">rockets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Autocannon" title="Autocannon">autocannons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Machine_gun" title="Machine gun">machine guns</a>, and even <a href="/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon" title="Directed-energy weapon">directed-energy weapons</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Laser" title="Laser">lasers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DoD_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DoD-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The requirement for detailed integration because of proximity, fires or movement is the determining factor. CAS may need to be conducted during shaping operations with <a href="/wiki/Special_forces" title="Special forces">special forces</a> if the mission requires detailed integration with the fire and movement of those forces. A closely related subset of <a href="/wiki/Air_interdiction" title="Air interdiction">air interdiction</a>, <b>battlefield air interdiction</b>, denotes interdiction against units with near-term effects on friendly units, but which does not require integration with friendly troop movements. CAS requires excellent coordination with ground forces, typically handled by specialists such as <a href="/wiki/Artillery_observer" title="Artillery observer">artillery observers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joint_terminal_attack_controller" title="Joint terminal attack controller">joint terminal attack controllers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Forward_air_control" title="Forward air control">forward air controllers</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> was the first conflict to make extensive use of CAS, albeit using relatively primitive methods in contrast to later warfare, though it was made evident that proper coordination between aerial and ground forces via <a href="/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio</a> made attacks more effective. Several conflicts during the <a href="/wiki/Interwar_period" title="Interwar period">interwar period</a>—including the <a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War" title="Polish–Soviet War">Polish–Soviet War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Revolt" title="Iraqi Revolt">Iraqi Revolt</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Chaco_War" title="Chaco War">Chaco War</a>—made notable use of CAS. <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> marked the universal acceptance of the integration of air power into <a href="/wiki/Combined_arms" title="Combined arms">combined arms</a> warfare, with all of the war's major combatants having developed effective air-ground coordination techniques by the conflict's end. New techniques, such as the use of <a href="/wiki/Forward_air_control" title="Forward air control">forward air control</a> to guide CAS aircraft and identifying <a href="/wiki/Invasion_stripes" title="Invasion stripes">invasion stripes</a>, also emerged at this time, being heavily shaped by the <a href="/wiki/Italian_campaign_(World_War_II)" title="Italian campaign (World War II)">Italian Campaign</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord">invasion of Normandy</a>. CAS continued to advance during the conflicts of the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>, especially the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>; major milestones included the introduction of <a href="/wiki/Attack_helicopter" title="Attack helicopter">attack helicopters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gunship" title="Gunship">gunships</a>, and dedicated CAS <a href="/wiki/Attack_aircraft" title="Attack aircraft">attack</a> <a href="/wiki/Jet_aircraft" title="Jet aircraft">jets</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_I">World War I</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: World War I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_Aircraft_Factory_FE2d_gunner.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_FE2d_gunner.jpg/250px-Royal_Aircraft_Factory_FE2d_gunner.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_FE2d_gunner.jpg/330px-Royal_Aircraft_Factory_FE2d_gunner.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_FE2d_gunner.jpg/500px-Royal_Aircraft_Factory_FE2d_gunner.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="538" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_F.E.2" title="Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2">F.E 2d</a> was one of the first aircraft to be used for close air support in 1917 (the observer is demonstrating the use of the rear-firing <a href="/wiki/Lewis_gun" title="Lewis gun">Lewis gun</a>).</figcaption></figure> <p>The use of aircraft in the close air support of ground forces dates back to <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, the first conflict to make significant military use of aerial forces.<sup id="cite_ref-Airpower_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Airpower-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Air warfare, and indeed aviation itself, was still in its infancy – and the direct effect of rifle caliber <a href="/wiki/Machine_gun" title="Machine gun">machine guns</a> and light bombs of World War I aircraft was very limited compared with the power of (for instance) an average <a href="/wiki/Fighter_bomber" class="mw-redirect" title="Fighter bomber">fighter bomber</a> of World War II, but CAS aircraft were still able to achieve a powerful psychological impact. The aircraft was a visible and personal enemy – unlike <a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">artillery</a> – presenting a personal threat to enemy troops, while providing friendly forces assurance that their superiors were concerned about their situation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The most successful attacks of 1917–1918 had included planning for co-ordination between aerial and ground units, although it was relatively difficult at this early date to co-ordinate these attacks due to the primitive nature of air-to-ground <a href="/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio communication</a>. Though most air-power proponents sought independence from ground commanders and hence pushed the importance of interdiction and strategic bombing, they nonetheless recognized the need for close air support.<sup id="cite_ref-House2001_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-House2001-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (July 2012)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>From the commencement of hostilities in 1914, aviators engaged in sporadic and spontaneous attacks on <a href="/wiki/Ground_forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Ground forces">ground forces</a>, but it was not until 1916 that an air support doctrine was elaborated and dedicated <a href="/wiki/Fighter_aircraft" title="Fighter aircraft">fighters</a> for the job were put into service. By that point, the startling and demoralizing effect that attack from the air could have on the troops in the <a href="/wiki/Trench" title="Trench">trenches</a> had been made clear.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme" title="Battle of the Somme">Battle of the Somme</a>, 18 British armed <a href="/wiki/Reconnaissance" title="Reconnaissance">reconnaissance</a> planes strafed the enemy trenches after conducting <a href="/wiki/Surveillance" title="Surveillance">surveillance</a> operations. The success of this improvised assault spurred innovation on both sides. In 1917, following the <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Aisne" title="Second Battle of the Aisne">Second Battle of the Aisne</a>, the British debuted the first ground-attack aircraft, a modified <a href="/wiki/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_F.E.2" title="Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2">F.E 2b</a> fighter carrying 20 lb (9.1 kg) <a href="/wiki/Bomb" title="Bomb">bombs</a> and mounted <a href="/wiki/Machine-gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Machine-gun">machine-guns</a>. After exhausting their ammunition, the planes returned to base for refueling and rearming before returning to the battle-zone. Other modified planes used in this role were the <a href="/wiki/Airco_DH.5" title="Airco DH.5">Airco DH.5</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sopwith_Camel" title="Sopwith Camel">Sopwith Camel</a> – the latter was particularly successful in this role.<sup id="cite_ref-Airpower_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Airpower-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Aircraft support was first integrated into a battle plan on a large scale at the 1917 <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cambrai_(1917)" title="Battle of Cambrai (1917)">Battle of Cambrai</a>, where a significantly larger number of <a href="/wiki/Tank" title="Tank">tanks</a> were deployed than previously. By that time, effective anti-aircraft tactics were being used by the enemy infantry and pilot casualties were high, although air support was later judged as having been of a critical importance in places where the infantry had got pinned down.<sup id="cite_ref-Hallion_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hallion-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At this time, British doctrine came to recognize two forms of air support; trench strafing (the modern-day doctrine of CAS), and ground strafing (the modern-day doctrine of <a href="/wiki/Air_interdiction" title="Air interdiction">air interdiction</a>) – attacking tactical ground targets away from the land battle. As well as strafing with machine-guns, planes engaged in such operations were commonly modified with bomb racks; the plane would fly in very low to the ground and release the bombs just above the trenches.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Junkers_JI.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Junkers_JI.jpg/250px-Junkers_JI.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Junkers_JI.jpg/330px-Junkers_JI.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Junkers_JI.jpg 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="239" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Junkers_J.I" title="Junkers J.I">Junkers J.I</a>, a First World War German <a href="/wiki/Ground-attack_aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Ground-attack aircraft">ground-attack aircraft</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Germans were also quick to adopt this new form of warfare and were able to deploy aircraft in a similar capacity at Cambrai. While the British used single-seater planes, the Germans preferred the use of heavier two-seaters with an additional machine gunner in the aft <a href="/wiki/Cockpit" title="Cockpit">cockpit</a>. The Germans adopted the powerful <a href="/wiki/Hannover_CL.II" title="Hannover CL.II">Hannover CL.II</a> and built the first purpose-built <a href="/wiki/Ground_attack_aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Ground attack aircraft">ground attack aircraft</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Junkers_J.I" title="Junkers J.I">Junkers J.I</a>. During the 1918 <a href="/wiki/German_spring_offensive" title="German spring offensive">German spring offensive</a>, the Germans employed 30 squadrons, or <i><a href="/wiki/Schlasta" title="Schlasta">Schlasta</a></i>, of ground attack fighters and were able to achieve some initial tactical success.<sup id="cite_ref-House2001_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-House2001-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (July 2012)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The British later deployed the <a href="/wiki/Sopwith_Salamander" title="Sopwith Salamander">Sopwith Salamander</a> as a specialized ground attack aircraft, although it was too late to see much action. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Sinai_and_Palestine_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinai and Palestine Campaign">Sinai and Palestine Campaign</a> of 1918, CAS aircraft functioned as an important factor in ultimate victory. After the British achieved <a href="/wiki/Air_superiority" class="mw-redirect" title="Air superiority">air superiority</a> over the German aircraft sent to aid the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Turks</a>, squadrons of S.E 5a's and D.H. 4s were sent on wide-ranging attacks against German and Turkish positions near the <a href="/wiki/Jordan_river" class="mw-redirect" title="Jordan river">Jordan river</a>. Combined with a ground assault led by General <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Allenby" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund Allenby">Edmund Allenby</a>, three Turkish armies soon collapsed into a full rout. In the words of the attacking squadron's official report: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>No 1 Squadron made six heavy raids during the day, dropped three tons of bombs and fired nearly 24,000 machine gun rounds.<sup id="cite_ref-Airpower_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Airpower-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Inter-war_period">Inter-war period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Inter-war period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Army_cooperation_aircraft" title="Army cooperation aircraft">Army cooperation aircraft</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Z_Force_DH9_in_air_ambulance_role.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Z_Force_DH9_in_air_ambulance_role.jpg/250px-Z_Force_DH9_in_air_ambulance_role.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Z_Force_DH9_in_air_ambulance_role.jpg/330px-Z_Force_DH9_in_air_ambulance_role.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Z_Force_DH9_in_air_ambulance_role.jpg 2x" data-file-width="397" data-file-height="242" /></a><figcaption>The British used air power extensively during the interwar period to police areas in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The close air support doctrine was further developed in the <a href="/wiki/Interwar_period" title="Interwar period">interwar period</a>. Most theorists advocated the adaptation of <a href="/wiki/Fighter_aircraft" title="Fighter aircraft">fighters</a> or <a href="/wiki/Light_bomber" title="Light bomber">light bombers</a> into the role. During this period, <a href="/wiki/Airpower" title="Airpower">airpower</a> advocates crystallized their views on the role of air-power in warfare. Aviators and ground officers developed largely opposing views on the importance of CAS, views that would frame institutional battles for CAS in the 20th century.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The inter-war period saw the use of CAS in a number of conflicts, including the <a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War" title="Polish–Soviet War">Polish–Soviet War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_revolt_of_1920" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi revolt of 1920">Iraqi revolt of 1920</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gran_Chaco_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Gran Chaco War">Gran Chaco War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Airpower_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Airpower-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The British used air power to great effect in various colonial hotspots in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a> during the immediate postwar period. The newly formed <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Air force">Royal Air force</a> (RAF) contributed to the defeat of the Afghan military during the <a href="/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War#Importance_of_British_airpower" title="Third Anglo-Afghan War">Third Anglo-Afghan War</a> by harassing Afghani troops and breaking up their formations. Z Force, an RAF air squadron, was also used to support ground operations during the <a href="/wiki/Somaliland_campaign_(1920)#Actions" class="mw-redirect" title="Somaliland campaign (1920)">Somaliland campaign</a>, in which the Darawiish king <a href="/wiki/Las_Anod#Diiriye_Guure" title="Las Anod"> Diiriye Guure</a>'s insurgency<sup id="cite_ref-scr_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scr-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was defeated. Following from these successes, the decision was made to create a unified <a href="/wiki/RAF_Iraq_Command" title="RAF Iraq Command">RAF Iraq Command</a> to use air power as a more cost-effective way of controlling large areas than the use of conventional land forces.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was effectively used to suppress the <a href="/wiki/Great_Iraqi_Revolution_of_1920" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Iraqi Revolution of 1920">Great Iraqi Revolution of 1920</a> and various other tribal revolts. </p><p>During the Spanish Civil War German volunteer aviators of the <a href="/wiki/Condor_Legion" title="Condor Legion">Condor Legion</a> on the Nationalist side, despite little official support from their government, developed close air support tactics that proved highly influential for subsequent <a href="/wiki/Luftwaffe" title="Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a> doctrine.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Aviation" title="United States Marine Corps Aviation">U.S. Marine Corps Aviation</a> was used as an intervention force in support of <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">U.S. Marine Corps</a> ground forces during the <a href="/wiki/Banana_Wars" title="Banana Wars">Banana Wars</a>, in places such as <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a>. Marine Aviators experimented with air-ground tactics and in Haiti and Nicaragua they adopted the tactic of <a href="/wiki/Dive_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="Dive bombing">dive bombing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CorumJohnson_pp23-40_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CorumJohnson_pp23-40-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The observers and participants of these wars would base their CAS strategies on their experience of the conflict. Aviators, who wanted institutional independence from the Army, pushed for a view of air-power centered around interdiction, which would relieve them of the necessity of integrating with ground forces and allow them to operate as an independent military arm. They saw close air support as both the most difficult and most inefficient use of aerial assets.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Close air support was the most difficult mission, requiring identifying and distinguishing between friendly and hostile units. At the same time, targets engaged in combat are dispersed and concealed, reducing the effectiveness of air attacks. They also argued that the CAS mission merely duplicated the abilities of artillery, whereas interdiction provided a unique capability.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Ground officers contended there was rarely sufficient artillery available, and the flexibility of aircraft would be ideal for massing firepower at critical points, while producing a greater psychological effect on friendly and hostile forces alike. Moreover, unlike massive, indiscriminate artillery strikes, small aerial bombs would not render ground untrafficable, slowing attacking friendly forces.<sup id="cite_ref-House2001_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-House2001-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (July 2012)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Although the prevailing view in official circles was largely indifferent to CAS during the interwar period, its importance was expounded upon by military theorists, such as <a href="/wiki/J._F._C._Fuller" title="J. F. C. Fuller">J. F. C. Fuller</a> and <a href="/wiki/Basil_Liddell_Hart" class="mw-redirect" title="Basil Liddell Hart">Basil Liddell Hart</a>. Hart, who was an advocate of what later came to be known as '<a href="/wiki/Blitzkrieg" title="Blitzkrieg">Blitzkrieg</a>' tactics, thought that the speed of armoured tanks would render conventional artillery incapable of providing support fire. Instead he proposed that: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>actual 'offensive' support must come from an even more mobile artillery moving alongside. For this purpose the close co-operation of low-flying aircraft ... is essential<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Luftwaffe"><i>Luftwaffe</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Luftwaffe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5188-17,_Flugzeuge_Junkers_Ju_87.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5188-17%2C_Flugzeuge_Junkers_Ju_87.jpg/250px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5188-17%2C_Flugzeuge_Junkers_Ju_87.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5188-17%2C_Flugzeuge_Junkers_Ju_87.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5188-17%2C_Flugzeuge_Junkers_Ju_87.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5188-17%2C_Flugzeuge_Junkers_Ju_87.jpg/500px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5188-17%2C_Flugzeuge_Junkers_Ju_87.jpg 2x" data-file-width="798" data-file-height="544" /></a><figcaption>A flight of Ju 87 D-5s over the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern Front</a>, winter 1943–44.</figcaption></figure> <p>As a continental power intent on offensive operations, Germany could not ignore the need for aerial support of ground operations. Though the <i><a href="/wiki/Luftwaffe" title="Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a></i>, like its counterparts, tended to focus on strategic bombing, it was unique in its willingness to commit forces to CAS. Unlike the Allies, the Germans were not able to develop powerful <a href="/wiki/Strategic_bombing" title="Strategic bombing">strategic bombing</a> capabilities, which implied industrial developments they were forbidden to take according to the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles" title="Treaty of Versailles">Treaty of Versailles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ifri_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ifri-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In joint exercises with <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a> in 1934, the Germans were first exposed to <a href="/wiki/Dive_bomber" title="Dive bomber">dive-bombing</a>, which permitted greater accuracy while making attack aircraft more difficult to track by antiaircraft gunners. As a result, <a href="/wiki/Ernst_Udet" title="Ernst Udet">Ernst Udet</a>, chief of the Luftwaffe's development, initiated procurement of close support dive bombers on the model of the U.S. Navy's <a href="/wiki/SBC_Helldiver" class="mw-redirect" title="SBC Helldiver">Curtiss Helldiver</a>, resulting in the <a href="/wiki/Henschel_Hs_123" title="Henschel Hs 123">Henschel Hs 123</a>, which was later replaced by the famous <a href="/wiki/Junkers_Ju_87" title="Junkers Ju 87">Junkers Ju 87</a> <i>Stuka</i>. Experience in the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a> lead to the creation of five ground-attack groups in 1938,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (October 2011)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Close_air_support#German_"ground-attack_squadron"_is_normally_understood_as_Schlachtgeschwader_(mainly_Henschel_Hs_123_and_Hs_129),_while_this_text_seems_to_describe_Sturzkampfgeschwader_("dive-bombing_squadron",_mainly_Ju_87)." title="Talk:Close air support">discuss</a></i>]</sup> four of which would be equipped with <i>Stukas</i>. The Luftwaffe matched its material acquisitions with advances in the air-ground coordination. General <a href="/wiki/Wolfram_von_Richthofen" title="Wolfram von Richthofen">Wolfram von Richthofen</a> organized a limited number of air liaison detachments that were attached to ground units of the main effort. These detachments existed to pass requests from the ground to the air, and receive reconnaissance reports, but they were not trained to guide aircraft onto targets.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>These preparations did not prove fruitful in the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland" title="Invasion of Poland">invasion of Poland</a>, where the Luftwaffe focused on interdiction and dedicated few assets to close air support. But the value of CAS was demonstrated at the crossing of the <a href="/wiki/Meuse_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Meuse River">Meuse River</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_France_(Nazi_Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of France (Nazi Germany)">Invasion of France</a> in 1940. General <a href="/wiki/Heinz_Guderian" title="Heinz Guderian">Heinz Guderian</a>, one of the creators of the combined-arms tactical doctrine commonly known as "<i><a href="/wiki/Blitzkrieg" title="Blitzkrieg">blitzkrieg</a></i>", believed the best way to provide cover for the crossing would be a continuous stream of ground attack aircraft on French defenders. Though few guns were hit, the attacks kept the French under cover and prevented them from manning their guns. Aided by the sirens attached to <i>Stukas</i>, the psychological impact was disproportional to the destructive power of close air support (although as often as not, the Stukas were used as <a href="/wiki/Tactical_bomber" class="mw-redirect" title="Tactical bomber">tactical bombers</a> instead of close air support, leaving much of the actual work to the older Hs 123 units for the first years of the war). In addition, the reliance on air support over artillery reduced the demand for logistical support through the Ardennes. Though there were difficulties in coordinating air support with the rapid advance, the Germans demonstrated consistently superior CAS tactics to those of the British and French defenders. Later, on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern front</a>, the Germans would devise visual ground signals to mark friendly units and to indicate direction and distance to enemy emplacements.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Despite these accomplishments, German CAS was not perfect and suffered from the same misunderstanding and <a href="/wiki/Interservice_rivalry" title="Interservice rivalry">interservice rivalry</a> that plagued other nations' air arms, and friendly fire was not uncommon. For example, on the eve of the Meuse offensive, Guderian's superior cancelled his CAS plans and called for high-altitude strikes from medium bombers, which would have required halting the offensive until the air strikes were complete. Fortunately for the Germans, his order was issued too late to be implemented, and the Luftwaffe commander followed the schedule he had previously worked out with Guderian.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> As late as November 1941, the Luftwaffe refused to provide <a href="/wiki/Erwin_Rommel" title="Erwin Rommel">Erwin Rommel</a> with an air liaison officer for the <i><a href="/wiki/Afrika_Korps" title="Afrika Korps">Afrika Korps</a></i>, because it "would be against the best use of the air force as a whole."<sup id="cite_ref-House2001_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-House2001-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (July 2012)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>German CAS was also extensively used on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern Front</a> during the period 1941–1943. Their decline was caused by the growing strength of the Red Air Force and the redeployment of assets to defend against American and British strategic bombardment. Luftwaffe's loss of air superiority, combined with a declining supply of aircraft and fuel, crippled their ability to provide effective CAS on the western front after 1943.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="RAF_and_USAAF">RAF and USAAF</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: RAF and USAAF"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Douglas_SBD_Dauntless_dropping_a_bomb,_circa_in_1942.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Douglas_SBD_Dauntless_dropping_a_bomb%2C_circa_in_1942.jpg/220px-Douglas_SBD_Dauntless_dropping_a_bomb%2C_circa_in_1942.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Douglas_SBD_Dauntless_dropping_a_bomb%2C_circa_in_1942.jpg/330px-Douglas_SBD_Dauntless_dropping_a_bomb%2C_circa_in_1942.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Douglas_SBD_Dauntless_dropping_a_bomb%2C_circa_in_1942.jpg/440px-Douglas_SBD_Dauntless_dropping_a_bomb%2C_circa_in_1942.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="427" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">U.S. Navy</a> <a href="/wiki/Douglas_SBD_Dauntless" title="Douglas SBD Dauntless">SBD Dauntless</a> dropping its bomb</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> (RAF) entered the war woefully unprepared to provide CAS. In 1940 during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">Battle of France</a>, the Royal Air Force and Army headquarters in France were located at separate positions, resulting in unreliable communications. After the RAF was withdrawn in May, Army officers had to telephone the <a href="/wiki/War_Office" title="War Office">War Office</a> in London to arrange for air support. The stunning effectiveness of German air-ground coordination spurred change. On the basis of tests in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> in August 1940, <a href="/wiki/Group_Captain" class="mw-redirect" title="Group Captain">Group Captain</a> A. H. Wann RAF and Colonel J.D. Woodall (British Army) issued the Wann-Woodall Report, recommending the creation of a distinct tactical air force liaison officer (known colloquially as "tentacles") to accompany Army divisions and brigades. Their report spurred the RAF to create an <a href="/wiki/RAF_Army_Cooperation_Command" title="RAF Army Cooperation Command">RAF Army Cooperation Command</a> and to develop tentacle equipment and procedures placing an Air Liaison Officer with each brigade.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the RAF was working on its CAS doctrine in London, officers in North Africa improvised their own coordination techniques. In October 1941, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Tedder,_1st_Baron_Tedder" title="Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder">Sir Arthur Tedder</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Coningham_(RAF_officer)" title="Arthur Coningham (RAF officer)">Arthur Coningham</a>, senior RAF commanders in North Africa, created joint RAF-Army Air Support Control staffs at each corps and armored division headquarters, and placed a Forward Air Support Link at each brigade to forward air support requests. When trained tentacle teams arrived in 1942, they cut response time on support requests to thirty minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-House2001_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-House2001-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (July 2012)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> It was also in the North Africa desert that the <a href="/wiki/Cab_rank_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Cab rank (disambiguation)">cab rank</a> strategy was developed.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It used a series of three aircraft, each in turn directed by the pertinent ground control by radio. One aircraft would be attacking, another in flight to the battle area, while a third was being refuelled and rearmed at its base. If the first attack failed to destroy the tactical target, the aircraft in flight would be directed to continue the attack. The first aircraft would land for its own refuelling and rearming once the third had taken off.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The CAS tactics developed and refined by the British during the <a href="/wiki/North_Africa_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="North Africa Campaign">campaign in North Africa</a> served as the basis for the Allied system used to subsequently gain victory in the air over Germany in 1944 and devastate its cities and industries.<sup id="cite_ref-Hallion_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hallion-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The use of <a href="/wiki/Forward_air_control" title="Forward air control">forward air control</a> to guide close air support (CAS)<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> aircraft, so as to ensure that their attack hits the intended target and not friendly troops, was first used by the British <a href="/wiki/Desert_Air_Force" title="Desert Air Force">Desert Air Force</a> in North Africa, but not by the USAAF until operations in Salerno.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/North_African_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="North African Campaign">North African Campaign</a> in 1941 the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> established Forward Air Support Links (FASL), a mobile air support system using ground vehicles. Light reconnaissance aircraft would observe enemy activity and report it by radio to the FASL which was attached at brigade level. The FASL was in communication (a two-way radio link known as a "tentacle") with the Air Support Control (ASC) Headquarters attached to the corps or armoured division which could summon support through a Rear Air Support Link with the airfields.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They also introduced the system of ground direction of air strikes by what was originally termed a "Mobile Fighter Controller" traveling with the forward troops. The controller rode in the "leading tank or armoured car" and directed a "cab rank" of aircraft above the battlefield.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This system of close co-operation first used by the Desert Air Force, was steadily refined and perfected, during the campaigns in Italy, Normandy and Germany. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mobile_Fighter_Controllers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Mobile_Fighter_Controllers.jpg/250px-Mobile_Fighter_Controllers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Mobile_Fighter_Controllers.jpg/330px-Mobile_Fighter_Controllers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Mobile_Fighter_Controllers.jpg/500px-Mobile_Fighter_Controllers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="970" data-file-height="629" /></a><figcaption>British Mobile Fighter Controllers operating during World War II</figcaption></figure> <p>By the time the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II)" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Campaign (World War II)">Italian Campaign</a> had reached <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, the Allies had established <a href="/wiki/Air_superiority" class="mw-redirect" title="Air superiority">air superiority</a>. They were then able to pre-schedule strikes by <a href="/wiki/Fighter-bomber" title="Fighter-bomber">fighter-bomber</a> squadrons; however, by the time the aircraft arrived in the strike area, oftentimes the targets, which were usually trucks, had fled.<sup id="cite_ref-Strikefrom_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Strikefrom-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The initial solution to fleeing targets was the British "Rover" system. These were pairings of air controllers and army liaison officers at the front but able to switch communications seamlessly from one brigade to another – hence Rover. Incoming strike aircraft arrived with pre-briefed targets, which they would strike 20 minutes after arriving on station only if the Rovers had not directed them to another more pressing target. Rovers might call on artillery to mark targets with smoke shells, or they might direct the fighters to map grid coordinates, or they might resort to a description of prominent terrain features as guidance. However, one drawback for the Rovers was the constant rotation of pilots, who were there for fortnightly stints, leading to a lack of institutional memory. US commanders, impressed by the British tactics at the Salerno landings, adapted their own doctrine to include many features of the British system.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the start of the War, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces" title="United States Army Air Forces">United States Army Air Forces</a> (USAAF) had, as its principal mission, the doctrine of strategic bombing. This incorporated the unerring belief that unescorted bombers could win the war without the advent of ground troops. This doctrine proved to be fundamentally flawed. However, during the entire course of the war the USAAF top brass clung to this doctrine, and hence operated independently of the rest of the Army. Thus it was initially unprepared to provide CAS, and in fact, had to be dragged "kicking and screaming" into the CAS function with the ground troops. USAAF doctrinal priorities for tactical aviation were, in order, air superiority, isolation of the battlefield via supply interdiction, and thirdly, close air support. Hence, during the <a href="/wiki/North_African_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="North African Campaign">North African Campaign</a>, CAS was poorly executed, if at all. So few aerial assets were assigned to U.S. troops that they fired on anything in the air. And in 1943, the USAAF changed their radios to a frequency incompatible with ground radios.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The situation improved during the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II)" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Campaign (World War II)">Italian Campaign</a>, where American and British forces, working in close cooperation, exchanged CAS techniques and ideas. There, the AAF's XII Air Support Command and the Fifth U.S. Army shared headquarters, meeting every evening to plan strikes and devising a network of liaisons and radios for communications. However, friendly fire continued to be a concern – pilots did not know recognition signals and regularly bombed friendly units, until an A-36 was shot down in self-defense by Allied tanks.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The expectation of losses to friendly fire from the ground during the planned invasion of France prompted the black and white <a href="/wiki/Invasion_stripes" title="Invasion stripes">invasion stripes</a> painted on all Allied aircraft from 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1944, USAAF commander Lt. Gen. <a href="/wiki/Henry_H._Arnold" title="Henry H. Arnold">Henry ("Hap") Arnold</a> acquired 2 groups of <a href="/wiki/SBD_Dauntless" class="mw-redirect" title="SBD Dauntless">A-24</a> dive bombers, the army version of the Navy's SBD-2, in response to the success of the <i>Stuka</i> and German CAS. Later, the USAAF developed a modification of the <a href="/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang" title="North American P-51 Mustang">North American P-51 Mustang</a> with dive brakes – the <a href="/wiki/North_American_A-36_Apache" class="mw-redirect" title="North American A-36 Apache">North American A-36 Apache</a>. However, there was no training to match the purchases. Though Gen. Lesley McNair, commander of Army Ground Forces, pushed to change USAAF priorities, the latter failed to provide aircraft for even major training exercises. Six months before the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Normandy">invasion of Normandy</a>, 33 divisions had received no joint air-ground training.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:013754_09_Strafing_at_Gona_Buna.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/013754_09_Strafing_at_Gona_Buna.JPG/250px-013754_09_Strafing_at_Gona_Buna.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/013754_09_Strafing_at_Gona_Buna.JPG/330px-013754_09_Strafing_at_Gona_Buna.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/013754_09_Strafing_at_Gona_Buna.JPG/500px-013754_09_Strafing_at_Gona_Buna.JPG 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="434" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">U.S. Navy</a> aircraft <a href="/wiki/Strafing" title="Strafing">strafing</a> Japanese positions during the <a href="/wiki/New_Guinea_campaign" title="New Guinea campaign">New Guinea campaign</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_War" title="Pacific War">Pacific War</a>, 1942</figcaption></figure> <p>The USAAF saw the greatest innovations in 1944 under General <a href="/wiki/Elwood_Quesada" class="mw-redirect" title="Elwood Quesada">Elwood Quesada</a>, commander of IX Tactical Air Command, supporting the First U.S. Army. He developed the "armored column cover", where on-call fighter-bombers maintained a high level of availability for important tank advances, allowing armor units to maintain a high tempo of exploitation even when they outran their artillery assets. He also used a modified antiaircraft radar to track friendly attack aircraft to redirect them as necessary, and experimented with assigning fighter pilots to tours as forward air controllers to familiarize them with the ground perspective. In July 1944, Quesada provided VHF aircraft radios to tank crews in Normandy. When the armored units broke out of the Normandy beachhead, tank commanders were able to communicate directly with overhead fighter-bombers. However, despite the innovation, Quesada focused his aircraft on CAS only for major offensives. Typically, both British and American attack aircraft were tasked primarily to interdiction, even though later analysis showed them to be twice as dangerous as CAS.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/XIX_Tactical_Air_Command" title="XIX Tactical Air Command">XIX TAC</a>, under the command of General <a href="/wiki/Otto_P._Weyland" title="Otto P. Weyland">Otto P. Weyland</a> used similar tactics to support the rapid armored advance of <a href="/wiki/General_Patton" class="mw-redirect" title="General Patton">General Patton</a>'s Third Army in its drive across France. Armed reconnaissance was a major feature of XIX TAC close air support, as the rapid advance left Patton's Southern flank open. Such was the close nature of cooperation between the Third Army and XIX TAC that Patton actually counted on XIX TAC to guard his flanks. This close air support from XIX TAC was credited by Patton as having been a key factor in the rapid advance and success of his Third Army.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The American Navy and Marine Corps used CAS in conjunction with or as a substitute for the lack of available artillery or naval gunfire in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean_theater_of_World_War_II" title="Pacific Ocean theater of World War II">Pacific theater</a>. Navy and Marine <a href="/wiki/F6F_Hellcat" class="mw-redirect" title="F6F Hellcat">F6F Hellcats</a> and <a href="/wiki/F4U_Corsair" class="mw-redirect" title="F4U Corsair">F4U Corsairs</a> used a variety of <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_ordnance" title="Aircraft ordnance">ordnance</a> such as conventional bombs, rockets and napalm to dislodge or attack Japanese troops using cave complexes in the latter part of the Second World War.<sup id="cite_ref-Barber2_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barber2-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Red_Air_Force">Red Air Force</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Red Air Force"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Red_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Air Force">Red Air Force</a> quickly recognized the value of ground-support aircraft. As early as the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Khalkhin_Gol" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Khalkhin Gol">Battles of Khalkhyn Gol</a> in 1939, Soviet aircraft had the task of disrupting enemy ground operations.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This use increased markedly after the June 1941 <a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Axis invasion of the Soviet Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Purpose-built aircraft such as the <a href="/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-2" title="Ilyushin Il-2">Ilyushin Il-2</a> <i>Sturmovik</i> proved highly effective in blunting the activity of the <i><a href="/wiki/Panzer" class="mw-redirect" title="Panzer">Panzers</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> paid the Il-2 a great tribute in his own inimitable manner: when a particular production factory fell behind on its deliveries, Stalin sent the following cable to the factory manager: "They are as essential to the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> as air and bread".<sup id="cite_ref-stalinquote_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stalinquote-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Korean_War">Korean War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Korean War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Koreacloseairsupport1950.JPEG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Koreacloseairsupport1950.JPEG/250px-Koreacloseairsupport1950.JPEG" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Koreacloseairsupport1950.JPEG/330px-Koreacloseairsupport1950.JPEG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Koreacloseairsupport1950.JPEG/500px-Koreacloseairsupport1950.JPEG 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2332" /></a><figcaption>F4U-5 Corsairs providing CAS for U.S. Marines during the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a></figcaption></figure> <p>From Navy experiments with the <a href="/wiki/V-1_(flying_bomb)#Post-war" class="mw-redirect" title="V-1 (flying bomb)">KGW-1 Loon</a>, the Navy designation for the German V-1 flying bomb, Marine Captain Marian Cranford Dalby developed the <a href="/w/index.php?title=AN/MPQ-14&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="AN/MPQ-14 (page does not exist)">AN/MPQ-14</a>, a system that enabled radar-guided bomb release at night or in poor weather.<sup id="cite_ref-Krulak_pp113-119_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krulak_pp113-119-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Though the Marine Corps continued its tradition of intimate air–ground cooperation in the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>, the newly created <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> (USAF) again moved away from CAS, now to strategic bombers and jet <a href="/wiki/Interceptor_aircraft" title="Interceptor aircraft">interceptors</a>. Though eventually the Air Force supplied sufficient pilots and forward air controllers to provide battlefield support, coordination was still lacking. Since pilots operated under centralized control, ground controllers were never able to familiarize themselves with pilots, and requests were not processed quickly. Harold K. Johnson, then commander of the <a href="/wiki/8th_Cavalry_Regiment_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="8th Cavalry Regiment (United States)">8th Cavalry Regiment</a>, 1st Cavalry Division (later <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_Staff_of_the_United_States_Army" title="Chief of Staff of the United States Army">Army Chief of Staff</a>) commented regarding CAS: "If you want it, you can't get it. If you can get it, it can't find you. If it can find you, it can't identify the target. If it can identify the target, it can't hit it. But if it does hit the target, it doesn't do a great deal of damage anyway."<sup id="cite_ref-Blair1987_p577_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blair1987_p577-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is unsurprising, then, that <a href="/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur" title="Douglas MacArthur">MacArthur</a> excluded USAF aircraft from the airspace over the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Inchon" title="Battle of Inchon">Inchon Landing</a> in September 1950, instead relying on <a href="/wiki/Marine_Aircraft_Group_33" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine Aircraft Group 33">Marine Aircraft Group 33</a> for CAS. In December 1951, Lt. Gen. <a href="/wiki/James_Van_Fleet" title="James Van Fleet">James Van Fleet</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Eighth_U.S._Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Eighth U.S. Army">Eighth U.S. Army</a>, formally requested the United Nations Commander, Gen. <a href="/wiki/Mark_W._Clark" title="Mark W. Clark">Mark Clark</a>, to permanently attach an attack squadron to each of the four army corps in Korea. Though the request was denied, Clark allocated many more Navy and Air Force aircraft to CAS. Despite the rocky start, the USAF would also work to improve its coordination efforts. It eventually required pilots to serve 80 days as <a href="/wiki/Forward_air_controller" class="mw-redirect" title="Forward air controller">forward air controllers</a> (FACs), which gave them an understanding of the difficulties from the ground perspective and helped cooperation when they returned to the cockpit. The USAF also provided airborne FACs in critical locations. The Army also learned to assist, by suppressing anti-aircraft fire prior to air strikes.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army">U.S. Army</a> wanted a dedicated USAF presence on the battlefield to reduce <a href="/wiki/Fratricide" title="Fratricide">fratricide</a>, or the harm of friendly forces. This preference led to the creation of the air liaison officer (ALO) position. The ALO is an aeronautically rated officer that has spent a tour away from the cockpit, serving as the primary adviser to the ground commander on the capabilities and limitations of <a href="/wiki/Airpower" title="Airpower">airpower</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The Korean War revealed important flaws in the application of CAS. Firstly, the USAF preferred interdiction over <a href="/wiki/Fire_support" title="Fire support">fire support</a> while the Army regarded support missions as the main concern for air forces. Then, the Army advocated a degree of decentralization for good reactivity, in contrast with the USAF-favored centralization of CAS. The third point dealt with the lack of training and joint culture, which are necessary for an adequate air-ground integration. Finally, USAF aircraft were not designed for CAS: "the advent of <a href="/wiki/Fighter_aircraft" title="Fighter aircraft">jet fighters</a>, too fast to adjust their targets, and <a href="/wiki/Strategic_bomber" title="Strategic bomber">strategic bombers</a>, too big to be used on theatre, rendered CAS much harder to implement".<sup id="cite_ref-ifri_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ifri-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vietnam_and_the_CAS_role_debate">Vietnam and the CAS role debate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Vietnam and the CAS role debate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:F-4C_Phantom_II_of_557th_TFS_over_Vietnam_in_1969.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/F-4C_Phantom_II_of_557th_TFS_over_Vietnam_in_1969.jpg/220px-F-4C_Phantom_II_of_557th_TFS_over_Vietnam_in_1969.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/F-4C_Phantom_II_of_557th_TFS_over_Vietnam_in_1969.jpg/330px-F-4C_Phantom_II_of_557th_TFS_over_Vietnam_in_1969.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/F-4C_Phantom_II_of_557th_TFS_over_Vietnam_in_1969.jpg/440px-F-4C_Phantom_II_of_557th_TFS_over_Vietnam_in_1969.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1367" /></a><figcaption>A USAF <a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II" title="McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II">F-4 Phantom II</a> providing close air support for American armored vehicles during the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a></figcaption></figure> <p>During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the US Army began to identify a dedicated CAS need for itself. The Howze Board, which studied the question, published a landmark report describing the need for a helicopter-based CAS requirement.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the Army did not follow the Howze Board recommendation initially. Nevertheless, it did eventually adopt the use of helicopter <a href="/wiki/Gunship" title="Gunship">gunships</a> and <a href="/wiki/Attack_helicopter" title="Attack helicopter">attack helicopters</a> in the CAS role.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Though the Army gained more control over its own CAS due to the development of the helicopter gunship and attack helicopter, the Air Force continued to provide fixed-wing CAS for Army units. Over the course of the war, the adaptation of The Tactical Air Control System proved crucial to the improvement of Air Force CAS.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jets replaced propeller-driven aircraft with minimal issues. The assumption of responsibility for the air request net by the Air Force improved communication equipment and procedures, which had long been a problem. Additionally, a major step in satisfying the Army's demands for more control over their CAS was the successful implementation of close air support control agencies at the corps level under Air Force control.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other notable adaptations were the usage of airborne Forward Air Controllers (FACs), a role previously dominated by FACs on the ground, and the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Arc_Light" title="Operation Arc Light">use of B-52s for CAS</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>U.S. Marine Corps Aviation was much more prepared for the application of CAS in the Vietnam War, due to CAS being its central mission.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In fact, as late as 1998, Marines were still claiming in their training manuals that "Close air support (CAS) is a Marine Corps innovation."<sup id="cite_ref-mcwp_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcwp-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the main debates taking place within the Marine Corps during the war was whether to adopt the helicopter gunship as a part of CAS doctrine and what its adoption would mean for fixed-wing CAS in the Marine Corps.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The issue would eventually be put to rest, however, as the helicopter gunship proved crucial in the combat environment of Vietnam. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Calling_in_fire_support_140424-A-QU939-197.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Calling_in_fire_support_140424-A-QU939-197.jpg/220px-Calling_in_fire_support_140424-A-QU939-197.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Calling_in_fire_support_140424-A-QU939-197.jpg/330px-Calling_in_fire_support_140424-A-QU939-197.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Calling_in_fire_support_140424-A-QU939-197.jpg/440px-Calling_in_fire_support_140424-A-QU939-197.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4748" data-file-height="3736" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a> soldiers coordinating close air support. In the background is the aforementioned close air support, an <a href="/wiki/Boeing_AH-64_Apache" title="Boeing AH-64 Apache">AH-64E Apache Guardian</a> <a href="/wiki/Attack_helicopter" title="Attack helicopter">attack helicopter</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Though helicopters were initially armed merely as defensive measures to support the landing and extraction of troops, their value in this role led to the modification of early helicopters as dedicated gunship platforms. Though not as fast as fixed-wing aircraft and consequently more vulnerable to anti-aircraft weaponry, helicopters could use terrain for cover, and more importantly, had much greater battlefield persistence owing to their low speeds. The latter made them a natural complement to ground forces in the CAS role. In addition, newly developed <a href="/wiki/Anti-tank_guided_missile" title="Anti-tank guided missile">anti-tank guided missiles</a>, demonstrated to great effectiveness in the 1973 <a href="/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War" title="Yom Kippur War">Yom Kippur War</a>, provided aircraft with an effective ranged anti-tank weapon. These considerations motivated armies to promote the helicopter from a support role to a combat arm. Though the U.S. Army controlled rotary-wing assets, coordination continued to pose a problem. During wargames, field commanders tended to hold back attack helicopters out of fear of air defenses, committing them too late to effectively support ground units. The earlier debate over control over CAS assets was reiterated between ground commanders and aviators. Nevertheless, the US Army incrementally gained increased control over its CAS role.<sup id="cite_ref-Rivalry_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rivalry-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the mid-1970s, after Vietnam, the USAF decided to train an <a href="/wiki/Enlisted_rank" title="Enlisted rank">enlisted</a> force to handle many of the tasks the ALO was saturated with, to include <a href="/wiki/Terminal_attack_control" class="mw-redirect" title="Terminal attack control">terminal attack control</a>. Presently, the ALO mainly serves in the liaison role, the intricate details of mission planning and attack guidance left to the enlisted members of the <a href="/wiki/Tactical_Air_Control_Party" title="Tactical Air Control Party">Tactical Air Control Party</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="NATO_and_AirLand_Battle">NATO and AirLand Battle</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: NATO and AirLand Battle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since their 1977 introduction into modern military practice for close air support purposes, General <a href="/wiki/Crosbie_E._Saint" title="Crosbie E. Saint">Crosbie E. Saint</a> provided the <a href="/wiki/AH-64_Apache" class="mw-redirect" title="AH-64 Apache">AH-64 Apache</a> the doctrinal cover for use in <a href="/wiki/AirLand_Battle" title="AirLand Battle">AirLand Battle</a> operations such as in the <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> European theatre. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aircraft">Aircraft</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Aircraft"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A-10_107th_FS_Michigan_ANG_firing_gun_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/A-10_107th_FS_Michigan_ANG_firing_gun_2010.jpg/220px-A-10_107th_FS_Michigan_ANG_firing_gun_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/A-10_107th_FS_Michigan_ANG_firing_gun_2010.jpg/330px-A-10_107th_FS_Michigan_ANG_firing_gun_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/A-10_107th_FS_Michigan_ANG_firing_gun_2010.jpg/440px-A-10_107th_FS_Michigan_ANG_firing_gun_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1599" data-file-height="1066" /></a><figcaption>An A-10 Thunderbolt II firing <a href="/wiki/30_mm_caliber" title="30 mm caliber">30 mm</a> rounds from its <a href="/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger" title="GAU-8 Avenger">GAU-8 Avenger</a> gun</figcaption></figure> <p>Various aircraft can fill close air support roles. <a href="/wiki/Military_helicopter" title="Military helicopter">Military helicopters</a> are often used for close air support and are so closely integrated with ground operations that in most countries they are operated by the army rather than the air force. Fighters and ground attack aircraft like the <a href="/wiki/A-10_Thunderbolt_II" class="mw-redirect" title="A-10 Thunderbolt II">A-10 Thunderbolt II</a> provide close air support using rockets, missiles, bombs, and <a href="/wiki/Strafing" title="Strafing">strafing</a> runs. </p><p>During the Second World War, a mixture of dive bombers and fighters were used for CAS missions. Dive bombing permitted greater accuracy than level bombing runs, while the rapid altitude change made it more difficult for anti aircraft gunners to track. The <a href="/wiki/Junkers_Ju_87" title="Junkers Ju 87">Junkers Ju 87</a> <i>Stuka</i> is a well known example of a dive bomber built for precision bombing but which was successfully used for CAS. It was fitted with wind-blown <a href="/wiki/Siren_(alarm)" title="Siren (alarm)">sirens</a> on its landing gear to enhance its psychological effect.<sup id="cite_ref-Griehl_2001,_p._63_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Griehl_2001,_p._63-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some variants of the Stuka were equipped with a pair of 37 mm (1.5 in) <a href="/wiki/BK_3,7" title="BK 3,7"><i>Bordkanone</i> BK 3,7</a> cannons mounted in under-wing gun pods, each loaded with two six-round magazines of <a href="/wiki/Kinetic_energy_penetrator" title="Kinetic energy penetrator">armour-piercing</a> <a href="/wiki/Tungsten_carbide" title="Tungsten carbide">tungsten carbide</a>-cored ammunition, for anti-tank operations.<sup id="cite_ref-Griehl_2001,_p._286._37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Griehl_2001,_p._286.-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other than the <a href="/wiki/North_American_A-36_Apache" class="mw-redirect" title="North American A-36 Apache">North American A-36 Apache</a>, a <a href="/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang" title="North American P-51 Mustang">P-51 Mustang</a> modified with dive brakes,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Americans and British used no dedicated CAS aircraft in the Second World War, preferring fighters or fighter-bombers that could be pressed into CAS service. While some aircraft, such as the <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Typhoon" title="Hawker Typhoon">Hawker Typhoon</a> and the <a href="/wiki/P-47_Thunderbolt" class="mw-redirect" title="P-47 Thunderbolt">P-47 Thunderbolt</a>, performed admirably in that role,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> there were a number of compromises that prevented most fighters from making effective CAS platforms. Fighters were usually optimized for high-altitude operations without bombs or other external ordnance – flying at low level with bombs quickly expended fuel. Cannons had to be mounted differently for strafing – strafing required a further and lower <a href="/wiki/Gun_harmonisation" title="Gun harmonisation">convergence point</a> than aerial combat did.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Of the Allied powers that fought in the Second World War, the Soviet Union used specifically designed ground attack aircraft more than the UK and US. Such aircraft included the <a href="/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-2" title="Ilyushin Il-2">Ilyushin Il-2</a>, the single most produced military aircraft at any point in world history.<sup id="cite_ref-stalinquote_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stalinquote-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Soviet military also frequently deployed the <a href="/wiki/Polikarpov_Po-2" title="Polikarpov Po-2">Polikarpov Po-2</a> biplane as a ground attack aircraft.<sup id="cite_ref-Gordon_p._285._42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gordon_p._285.-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Sea_Fury" title="Hawker Sea Fury">Hawker Sea Fury</a> fighters and the U.S. <a href="/wiki/Vought_F4U_Corsair" title="Vought F4U Corsair">Vought F4U Corsair</a> and <a href="/wiki/Douglas_A-1_Skyraider" title="Douglas A-1 Skyraider">Douglas A-1 Skyraider</a> were operated in a ground attack capacity during the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Outside of the conflict, there were numerous other occasions that the Sea Fury was used as a ground attack platform. Cuban Sea Furies, operated by the <i><a href="/wiki/Cuban_Revolutionary_Armed_Forces" title="Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces">Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria</a></i> ("Revolutionary Air Force"; FAR), were used to oppose the US-orchestrated <a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion" title="Bay of Pigs Invasion">Bay of Pigs Invasion</a> to attack incoming transport ships and disembarking ground forces alike.<sup id="cite_ref-CubaHeritage_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CubaHeritage-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ACIG_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ACIG-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The A-1 Skyraider also saw later use, especially throughout the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Viet_brief_p34-5_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Viet_brief_p34-5-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, the United States introduced a number of fixed and rotary wing gunships, including several cargo aircraft that were refitted as gun platforms to serve as CAS and air interdiction aircraft. The first of these to emerge was the <a href="/wiki/Douglas_AC-47_Spooky" title="Douglas AC-47 Spooky">Douglas AC-47 Spooky</a>, which was converted from the <a href="/wiki/Douglas_C-47_Skytrain" title="Douglas C-47 Skytrain">Douglas C-47 Skytrain</a>/<a href="/wiki/Douglas_DC-3" title="Douglas DC-3">Douglas DC-3</a>. Some commentators have remarked on the high effectiveness of the AC-47 in the CAS role.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The USAF developed several other platforms following on from the AC-47, including the <a href="/wiki/Fairchild_AC-119" title="Fairchild AC-119">Fairchild AC-119</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130" title="Lockheed AC-130">Lockheed AC-130</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The AC-130 has had a particularly lengthy service, being used extensively during the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">War in Afghanistan</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a> and the <a href="/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya" title="2011 military intervention in Libya">US military intervention in Libya</a> during the early twenty-first century.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Multiple variants of the AC-130 have been developed and it has continued to be modernised, including the adoption of various new armaments.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RAF_Harrier_GR9.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/RAF_Harrier_GR9.JPG/250px-RAF_Harrier_GR9.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/RAF_Harrier_GR9.JPG/330px-RAF_Harrier_GR9.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/RAF_Harrier_GR9.JPG/500px-RAF_Harrier_GR9.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4256" data-file-height="2832" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/RAF" class="mw-redirect" title="RAF">RAF</a> <a href="/wiki/Harrier_GR9" class="mw-redirect" title="Harrier GR9">Harrier GR9</a> provides air support with the use of rockets, machine guns and <a href="/wiki/Precision-guided_munition" title="Precision-guided munition">Guided Ordnance</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>Usually close support is thought to be only carried out by <a href="/wiki/Fighter-bomber" title="Fighter-bomber">fighter-bombers</a> or dedicated <a href="/wiki/Ground-attack_aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Ground-attack aircraft">ground-attack aircraft</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/A-10_Thunderbolt_II" class="mw-redirect" title="A-10 Thunderbolt II">A-10 Thunderbolt II</a> (<i>Warthog</i>) or <a href="/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-25" title="Sukhoi Su-25">Su-25 (<i>Frogfoot</i>)</a> or <a href="/wiki/Attack_helicopters" class="mw-redirect" title="Attack helicopters">attack helicopters</a> such as the <a href="/wiki/AH-64_Apache" class="mw-redirect" title="AH-64 Apache">AH-64 Apache</a>, but even large high-altitude <a href="/wiki/Bomber" title="Bomber">bombers</a> have successfully filled close support roles using <a href="/wiki/Precision-guided_munitions" class="mw-redirect" title="Precision-guided munitions">precision-guided munitions</a>. During <a href="/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom" title="Operation Enduring Freedom">Operation Enduring Freedom</a>, the lack of <a href="/wiki/Fighter_aircraft" title="Fighter aircraft">fighter aircraft</a> forced military planners to rely heavily on US bombers, particularly the <a href="/wiki/B-1B_Lancer" class="mw-redirect" title="B-1B Lancer">B-1B Lancer</a>, to fill the CAS role. Bomber CAS, relying mainly on <a href="/wiki/Global_Positioning_System" title="Global Positioning System">GPS</a> guided weapons and laser-guided <a href="/wiki/JDAM" class="mw-redirect" title="JDAM">JDAMs</a> has evolved into a devastating tactical employment methodology and has changed US doctrinal thinking regarding CAS in general. With significantly longer loiter times, range, and weapon capacity, bombers can be deployed to bases outside of the immediate battlefield area, with 12-hour missions being commonplace since 2001. After the initial collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> regime in Afghanistan, airfields in Afghanistan became available for continuing operations against the Taliban and <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a>. This resulted in a great number of CAS operations being undertaken by aircraft from Belgium (<a href="/wiki/F-16_Fighting_Falcon" class="mw-redirect" title="F-16 Fighting Falcon">F-16 Fighting Falcon</a>), Denmark (F-16), France (<a href="/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_2000N/2000D" title="Dassault Mirage 2000N/2000D">Mirage 2000D</a>), the Netherlands (F-16), Norway (F-16), the United Kingdom (<a href="/wiki/BAE_Harrier_II" class="mw-redirect" title="BAE Harrier II">Harrier GR7s, GR9s</a> and <a href="/wiki/Panavia_Tornado#Royal_Air_Force" title="Panavia Tornado">Tornado GR4s</a>) and the United States (A-10, F-16, <a href="/wiki/AV-8B_Harrier_II" class="mw-redirect" title="AV-8B Harrier II">AV-8B Harrier II</a>, <a href="/wiki/F-15E_Strike_Eagle" class="mw-redirect" title="F-15E Strike Eagle">F-15E Strike Eagle</a>, <a href="/wiki/F/A-18_Hornet" class="mw-redirect" title="F/A-18 Hornet">F/A-18 Hornet</a>, <a href="/wiki/F/A-18E/F_Super_Hornet" class="mw-redirect" title="F/A-18E/F Super Hornet">F/A-18E/F Super Hornet</a>, <a href="/wiki/UH-1Y_Venom" class="mw-redirect" title="UH-1Y Venom">UH-1Y Venom</a>).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:US_Army_YPG_JAGM_Testing_with_AH-64.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/US_Army_YPG_JAGM_Testing_with_AH-64.jpg/300px-US_Army_YPG_JAGM_Testing_with_AH-64.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/US_Army_YPG_JAGM_Testing_with_AH-64.jpg/450px-US_Army_YPG_JAGM_Testing_with_AH-64.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/US_Army_YPG_JAGM_Testing_with_AH-64.jpg/600px-US_Army_YPG_JAGM_Testing_with_AH-64.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1766" data-file-height="1083" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/U.S._Army" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army">U.S. Army</a> testing of the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Air-to-Ground_Missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Joint Air-to-Ground Missile">Joint Air-to-Ground Missile</a> (JAGM) via an AH-64 Apache Longbow at Cibola Range, <a href="/wiki/Yuma_Proving_Ground" title="Yuma Proving Ground">Yuma Proving Ground</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The use of information technology to direct and coordinate precision air support has increased the importance of <a href="/wiki/Intelligence" title="Intelligence">intelligence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surveillance" title="Surveillance">surveillance</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Reconnaissance" title="Reconnaissance">reconnaissance</a> in using CAS. <a href="/wiki/Laser" title="Laser">Laser</a>, <a href="/wiki/GPS" class="mw-redirect" title="GPS">GPS</a>, and battlefield data transfer are routinely used to coordinate with a wide variety of air platforms able to provide CAS. The 2003 joint CAS doctrine reflects the increased use of electronic and optical technology to direct targeted fires for CAS.<sup id="cite_ref-DoD_JointTactics_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DoD_JointTactics-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Air platforms communicating with ground forces can also provide additional aerial-to-ground visual search, ground-convoy escort, and enhancement of command and control (C2), assets which can be particularly important for <a href="/wiki/Low_intensity_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Low intensity conflict">low intensity conflict</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AirSpace_Haun_2006_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AirSpace_Haun_2006-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Doctrine">Doctrine</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Doctrine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>MCWP 3-23.1: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Portals/207/Docs/TBS/MCWP%203-23.1%20Close%20Air%20Support.pdf"><i>CLOSE AIR SUPPORT</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. U.S. Marine Corps. 30 July 1998.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=CLOSE+AIR+SUPPORT&rft.pub=U.S.+Marine+Corps&rft.date=1998-07-30&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trngcmd.marines.mil%2FPortals%2F207%2FDocs%2FTBS%2FMCWP%25203-23.1%2520Close%2520Air%2520Support.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClose+air+support" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>JP 3-09.3: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://irp.fas.org/doddir/dod/jp3_09_3.pdf"><i>Close Air Support</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Joint Chiefs of Staff. 25 November 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Close+Air+Support&rft.pub=Joint+Chiefs+of+Staff&rft.date=2014-11-25&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Firp.fas.org%2Fdoddir%2Fdod%2Fjp3_09_3.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClose+air+support" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Artillery_observer" title="Artillery observer">Artillery observer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attack_aircraft" title="Attack aircraft">Attack aircraft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counter-insurgency_aircraft" title="Counter-insurgency aircraft">Counter-insurgency aircraft</a>, a specific type of CAS aircraft</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dive_bomber" title="Dive bomber">Dive bomber</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flying_Leathernecks" title="Flying Leathernecks">Flying Leathernecks</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forward_air_control" title="Forward air control">Forward air control</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Light_Attack/Armed_Reconnaissance" title="Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance">Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pace-Finletter_MOU_1952" title="Pace-Finletter MOU 1952">Pace-Finletter MOU 1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schnellbomber" title="Schnellbomber">Schnellbomber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tactical_bombing" title="Tactical bombing">Tactical bombing</a>, a general term for the type of bombing that includes CAS and air interdiction</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Close_air_support&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-DoD-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-DoD_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Close Air Support</i>. United States Department of Defense, 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Airpower-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Airpower_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Airpower_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Airpower_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Airpower_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#Hallion">Hallion</a> (1990), <i>Airpower Journal</i>, p. 8.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-House2001-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-House2001_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-House2001_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-House2001_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-House2001_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-House2001_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#House">House</a> (2001), <i>Combined Arms Warfare</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hallion-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hallion_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hallion_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFHallion2010" class="citation book cs1">Hallion, Richard P. (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAdtAIMTReEC"><i>Strike From the Sky: The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1910–1945</i></a>. University of Alabama Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780817356576" title="Special:BookSources/9780817356576"><bdi>9780817356576</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 February</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Strike+From+the+Sky%3A+The+History+of+Battlefield+Air+Attack%2C+1910%E2%80%931945&rft.pub=University+of+Alabama+Press&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=9780817356576&rft.aulast=Hallion&rft.aufirst=Richard+P.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DZAdtAIMTReEC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClose+air+support" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-scr-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-scr_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFOmar2001" class="citation book cs1">Omar, Mohamed (2001). <i>The Scramble in the Horn of Africa</i>. p. 402. <q>This letter is sent by all the Dervishes, the Amir, and all the Dolbahanta to the Ruler of Berbera ... We are a Government, we have a Sultan, an Amir, and Chiefs, and subjects ... (reply) In his last letter the Mullah pretends to speak in the name of the Dervishes, their Amir (himself), and the Dolbahanta tribes. This letter shows his object is to establish himself as the Ruler of the Dolbahanta</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Scramble+in+the+Horn+of+Africa&rft.pages=402&rft.date=2001&rft.aulast=Omar&rft.aufirst=Mohamed&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClose+air+support" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Boyle, Andrew. <i>Trenchard Man of Vision</i> p. 371.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-CorumJohnson_pp23-40-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-CorumJohnson_pp23-40_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CorumJohnson">Corum & Johnson</a>, <i>Small Wars</i>, pp. 23-40.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMearsheimer2010" class="citation book cs1">Mearsheimer, John J. (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uq1nV4XObpAC"><i>Liddell Hart and the Weight of History</i></a>. Cornell University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0801476310" title="Special:BookSources/978-0801476310"><bdi>978-0801476310</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 February</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Liddell+Hart+and+the+Weight+of+History&rft.pub=Cornell+University+Press&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0801476310&rft.aulast=Mearsheimer&rft.aufirst=John+J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Duq1nV4XObpAC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClose+air+support" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ifri-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ifri_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ifri_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFTenenbaum2012" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Tenenbaum, Elie (October 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ifri.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/fs35bistenenbaum.pdf">"The Battle over Fire Support: The CAS Challenge and the Future of Artillery"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Focus stratégique</i>. 35 bis. Institut français des relations internationales. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-36567-083-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-2-36567-083-8"><bdi>978-2-36567-083-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Focus+strat%C3%A9gique&rft.atitle=The+Battle+over+Fire+Support%3A+The+CAS+Challenge+and+the+Future+of+Artillery&rft.volume=35+bis&rft.date=2012-10&rft.isbn=978-2-36567-083-8&rft.aulast=Tenenbaum&rft.aufirst=Elie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifri.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fatoms%2Ffiles%2Ffs35bistenenbaum.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClose+air+support" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Delve 1994, p. 100.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Strike from Above: The History of Battlefield Air Attack 1911–1945</i>. pp. <span class="nowrap">181–</span>182.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Strike+from+Above%3A+The+History+of+Battlefield+Air+Attack+1911%E2%80%931945&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E181-%3C%2Fspan%3E182&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClose+air+support" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110608001520/http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4463968B-8061-4E75-BDC3-05074EFA8AFF/0/20071218_ijwp3_30_U_DCDCIMAPPS.pdf">"Joint Air Operations Interim Joint warfare Publication 3–30"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. MoD. pp. <span class="nowrap">4–</span>5. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4463968B-8061-4E75-BDC3-05074EFA8AFF/0/20071218_ijwp3_30_U_DCDCIMAPPS.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 2011-06-08. <q>CAS in defined as air action against targets that are in proximity to friendly forces and require detailed integration of each air mission with the fire and movement of these forces</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Joint+Air+Operations+Interim+Joint+warfare+Publication+3%E2%80%9330&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E4-%3C%2Fspan%3E5&rft.pub=MoD&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mod.uk%2FNR%2Frdonlyres%2F4463968B-8061-4E75-BDC3-05074EFA8AFF%2F0%2F20071218_ijwp3_30_U_DCDCIMAPPS.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClose+air+support" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMatthew_G._St._Clair2007" class="citation web cs1">Matthew G. St. Clair (February 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA466970.pdf">"The Twelfth US Air Force Tactical and Operational Innovations in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 1943–1944"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Air University Press Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110604194605/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA466970&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on June 4, 2011. <q>The use of forward air controllers (FAC) was another innovative technique employed during Operation Avalanche. FACs were first employed in the Mediterranean by the British Desert Air Force in North Africa but not by the AAF until operations in Salerno. 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