Talk:Air supremacy

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[edit] un-redirecting

I saw that this page once had an article but was then merged and redirected to air superiority. I think that air supremacy needs its own page not just because of it's significance, but more importantly because civilians often make the mistake of thinking the two are the exact same thing, which they are not. While they both relate to control of the skies, air supremacy is a completely different level of control and hopefully having its own page will help show this. JW 02:12, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] decimated

The word "decimated" is misused here. "Decimated" comes from Roman times where victorious armies would punish the losers by killing every tenth soldier. It is often misused when someone is trying to describe a crushing defeat -- five out of six in this case -- when in fact it only means 10% losses were inflicted.