Probably is some kind of mix of being the "new" service (which could be filled with political people... at least when it was new 50 years ago) and the hubris aquired by soaring around in the sky, untouchable, and dropping bombs on people.
Godlike. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
And I was actually thinking more of the WW2 Luftwaffe than the US Air Force, even if that organization had had its fair share of crazies. Like General Curtis LeMay. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.