Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "Air Power 1914-2019 - How to rule the Sky" video.

If you can find it, a worthwhile read is "The Bekaa Valley Air Battle, June, 1982; Lessons Mislearned?" by CIC Matthew Hurley. This was that notorious battle between Israel and Syria which resulted in the loss of something like 82 Syrian aircraft against six Israeli. Long touted as a victory of Western technology of Soviet era equipment, there is a lot more to it than that. What it highlighted was the necessity for training and the dominance of the electronic battlespace. In the latter, the critical areas were C3 and jamming. At the height of the battle, the Syrian aircraft had their radars blinded by relentless Israeli jamming and they could not communicate even between individual flights because all their communication channels were being jammed. They formed a Luftbery Circle and were simply shot out of the sky. The Israelis were using the latest US F-15 and F-16 fighters but with the electronic advantage they had, they could have been using anything that could fly and carry a missile. Also, I think it's worth remembering that the coalition victory in the 1991 Persian Gulf war has been overstated. The coalition strike forces were tailor made to defeat an enemy using the Soviet model. This has led to some rather dangerous assumptions by modern observers and this has found its way into arguments about the value of stealth, the practices using it and the overall effectiveness.
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