The Korean Air War graphic illustrates the monthly number of aircraft sorties that were flown for the entire war.  The Korean War experience illustrates many operational realities of the modern era.  

The United States and our Allies, operating under United Nations mandate, held the technological advantage over the Communist aggressors.  The exception being the deployment of the Mig-15.  This advantage was equalized by the vast numbers of infantry deployed by Communist China.  Air power was used to mitigate that infantry disparity, but was only able to establish a stalemate for the ground forces.  

This graphic illustrates the enormous level of air power effort that was required to halt the overwhelming amount of infantry deployed by Communist China.  It shows that naval supremacy, air supremacy, or air superiority, may have operational limitations that need to be considered.  Sustainment of a massive air power presence and it’s possible limitations deserves careful study.  The monthly sortie data, and aircraft carrier deployment dates, inform the operational context needed to apply the lessons from the Korean War to present day threats in the Indo-Pacific region.  The two years of war were an enormous strain on the American forces.   

Data is derived from after action reports and primary sources.

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