{"id":94497,"date":"2024-07-26T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-strategic-deterrence-roles-b-52-stratofortress\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T23:26:11","slug":"5-strategic-deterrence-roles-of-the-us-b-52-stratofortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=94497","title":{"rendered":"5 Strategic Deterrence Roles Of The US B-52 Stratofortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#8220;Flexibility is the key to airpower,&#8221; quoth the maxim by early 20th century airpower theorist General Giulio Douhet. Going hand-in-hand with flexibility is versatility, and the B-52 Stratofortress AKA the &#8220;BUFF&#8221; (&#8220;Big Ugly Fat Fellow&#8221; or &#8220;Big Ugly Fat F*ck*r,&#8221; depending on whether you&#8217;re in polite company) has exemplified both of these crucial airpower tenets, which explains why this big bomber is still going strong in the US Air Force arsenal after seven decades.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 7 decades, the &#8220;BUFF: remains the premier warbird in the US strategic arsenal. We now examine its Top 5 strategic roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,2038,398,1455,3978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-b-52","category-boeing","category-bomber","category-strategic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94498,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94497\/revisions\/94498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}