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air command

American  

noun

  1. U.S. Air Force.  a unit of command that is higher than an air force.


Air Command British  

noun

  1. the Canadian air force

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Strategic Air Command, signed a 1998 statement, organized by the group Global Zero, that called for the elimination of nuclear weapons globally.

From Salon

The Polish military also thanked Nato's Air Command and the Netherlands for deploying F-35 fighter jets.

From BBC

In the early days of the Nuclear Age, the top generals, like Curtis LeMay, the first head of the Strategic Air Command, did so with a ruthless attitude: War was about killing people and destroying countries, so the bigger the bomb, the better.

From Slate

Plus the formation of The Joint Nordic Air Command, which brings together Finland's, Sweden's, Norway's and Denmark's 250 front-line combat aircraft under a joined up command structure, with flexible basing and backed by shared intelligence.

From BBC

LeMay, the more accomplished and visible of the two, rose to become Air Force chief of staff after commanding Strategic Air Command and leading the strategic bombing campaign against Japan in World War II. He was constantly at odds with McNamara, President John F. Kennedy and Joint Chiefs Chairman Maxwell Taylor over the Cuban missile crisis and the war in Vietnam.

From Salon