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Re:House panel votes to split Air Force, create new U.S. Spa... by tomjakubowski on Friday June 30, 2017 @04:02PM (#14673310)
> No other modern military force has a separate "air force", because having it separate only complicates things when conducting a conventional ground war.

Besides the US: Turkey, Syria, Russia, Israel all off the top of my head have air force and ground army (along with, at least, a navy) separate under one "Armed Forces" command.

What modern air forces operate as part of the army, rather than separately (as most navies do)?

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Re:House panel votes to split Air Force, create new U.S. Spa... by smacktoward on Friday June 30, 2017 @04:21PM (#14673395)
The big one is China, where all the services are technically branches within the People's Liberation Army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Liberation_Army
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Re:House panel votes to split Air Force, create new U.S. Spa... by gorkonsine on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:59AM (#14702884)
That really doesn't sound any different than the US, it's just different naming. In the US, all four services are branches within the "Department of Defense". So US DOD = China PLA.

To properly compare, you need to look at whether the air force has the same level of autonomy from the ground army as the navy does. If it does, it's just like the US. If not, it's not.

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Re:House panel votes to split Air Force, create new U.S. Spa... by dragonwriter on Friday June 30, 2017 @05:25PM (#14673686)
But, from one perspective, that doesn't mean they don't have an Air Force as a top level service, it just means the PLA is the aggregate (like “Armed Forces” of many other countries) under which the top-level services exist.
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