FROM THE DAWN OF WARFARE, the key warfighting precepts of "hold the high ground" and "keep the sun behind you" have evolved and become more subtle, but they are still valid today. As air power in World War II evolved, battles moved to the air and the necessity to maintain air superiority became a fundamental warfighting philosophy. If you asked a fighter pilot during World War II what he needed in a plane, he would say, "I want to turn inside the enemy," or superior maneuverability. Today, as we have firmly moved to space as the high ground, this maxim has never been truer.
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