Meet The “New” U.S. Air Force -- War Is Boring
In April 2008, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said the Air Force wasn’t doing enough to help win the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “It’s been like pulling teeth,” Gates said of the Air Force’s reluctance to invest more in the Reaper and Predator aerial drones that have proved so useful for finding and killing insurgents. At the time, the Air Force was still hoping to buy 381 F-22 stealth fighters — 200 more than the Pentagon was willing to fund — plus as many as 100 smaller F-35s, per year.
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