{"id":95962,"date":"2024-07-28T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/role-us-tactical-air-command-cold-war\/"},"modified":"2024-07-28T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T18:30:11","slug":"the-role-of-us-tactical-air-command-in-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=95962","title":{"rendered":"The Role Of US Tactical Air Command In The Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    During the early years of the Cold War, the so-called &#8220;Bomber Mafia&#8221; of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0EGKfi5eeo0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Strategic Air Command (SAC)<\/a> ruled the proverbial roost of the United States Air Force, thanks in no small part to SAC&#8217;s senior leader, the hard-charging, cigar-chomping, no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners<a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/About-Us\/Biographies\/Display\/Article\/106462\/general-curtis-emerson-lemay\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" > Gen. Curtis Emerson LeMay <\/a>(November 15, 1906  October 1, 1990).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the early days of the Cold War, the so-called &#8220;Bomber Mafia&#8221; ruled the USAF. But thanks to TAC, the &#8220;Fighter Mafia&#8221; eventually took over.<\/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":[396,397,8977,2125,625,628,8012,1328,1384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-cold-war","category-f-15","category-f-16","category-fighter-jets","category-mig-21","category-united-states-air-force","category-us-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95962","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=95962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95963,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95962\/revisions\/95963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}