 Jeschonnek's way of war was based on the full commitment of the "Luftwaffe" to close air support operations in cooperation with the German Army.The military victories, until 1942, largely masked the failures of Jeschonnek, Göring and the "Oberkommando der Luftwaffe" (High Command of the Air Force).As the German war effort failed on the Eastern and North African Fronts in 1942 and 1943, the British and American Combined Bomber Offensive began a strategy to destroy the "Luftwaffe" in a war of attrition for which Jeschonnek and Göring had failed to prepare.