"Bill Silvey" wrote in message ...
"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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But the development of Army aviation, while initially aimed at
supplementing artillery, changed quite a bit with the development of
the divisional aviation brigade, which instead became a fourth
maneuver element, as opposed to a fire support element. If your attack
aviation assets are tied up with a deep mission, or with a continuous
attack mission along some axis, then the need for CAS on the part of
the ground maneuver brigades has not really been lessened. I never
thought of the aviation assets as so much substituting for CAS as much
as they *complement* it (JAAT being an example of the latter).

But are JAAT and JAWS even *practiced* any more?

JAAT was still included in the doctrine available in mid-96, which is
the date of publication of my CGSC text.

Brooks