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THE COMMAND OF THE AIR.
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the advantage of the n-square law. The object of the practice of tactical exercises will be to enable an air fleet to manoeuvre to defeat the enemy in detail, and, if his numbers are superior, to prevent him from bringing his whole concentrated fire to bear by the adroit handling of the weaker numbers, and so to neutralise the advantage of his numerically superior force.

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