In the 50 years since the United States pulled out of Vietnam, the number of air combat victories against manned aircraft has plummeted. Once you break down the types of conflicts the United States has been involved with, it starts to make more sense why air combat isn't as prevalent. Even when, seemingly, the number of armed conflicts happening at any given time doesn't seem to diminish. In World War II, the Korean War, and the War in Vietnam, the United States and its allies were fighting against the air power of an entire country (i.e., Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany,...