"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."

War, Blind, Conflict

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"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."

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