Following the Korean War the United States military adopted the view that airborne radar and air-to-air missiles made guns and dogfighting obsolete.
[7][6]: 35 [8]: 4 The report suggested that such a school be created under the auspices of VF-121, the West Coast F-4 Replacement Air Group, which had responsibility for training F-4 aircrews.
One of the critical findings of the Ault Report was that many of the missile failures were caused by out of envelope firings due to unfamiliarity of the aircrews with the dynamically changing launch acceptability regions (LAR).
[6]: 36 [8]: 4–5 This led to development of the Air Combat Maneuvering Range (ACMR) at MCAS Yuma for use by aircraft flying out of NAS Miramar.
The USAF conducted an exhaustive study of air-to-air encounters in Southeast Asia titled "Project Red Baron", named in tribute to Manfred von Richthofen,[9] and included all service experiences in the scope of effort.