Air Force Staff Sgt. Uruwishi Holzhausen, 314th Training Squadron military language instructor, discusses the geography of China at the Presidio of Monterey, California, July 21. (Senior Airman Ashley Thrash/Air Force)
Defense News: Air Force leaders are promising a return to a Cold War posture opposite China and Russia
Air Force leaders are promising a return to a Cold War posture opposite China and Russia, hoping for a reprieve from the counterterrorism operations of the past two decades as America winds down its presence in Afghanistan.
The Indo-Pacific and Europe are often spotlighted as the central battleground for civil, military and economic competition with China and Russia. But conversations with air commanders around the world show how the rivalry is shaping operations in their own backyards, from U.S. support for foreign troops to learning to deploy from bare fields.
Military leaders have grown increasingly vocal with an “America vs. China” narrative that is now a blueprint for the Air Force’s spending choices, its strategic planning and its training curriculum.
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WNU Editor:After the debacle in Afghanistan, it looks like the US Air Force is now looking for a new mission.
5 comments:
meanwhile the terrorists get a big wet sloppy kiss.
I am confused; The air force has always had missions, lots of them. They have so many missions that they try to sluff one off and it angers the Army and Marines.
Air superiority
Global integrated ISR
Rapid global mobility
Global strike
Command and control
The problem is funding from Congress and direction from Congress and the president. Problem is that Congress does not recognize it has enemies like China or Pakistan.
Congress is fully aware that we have enemies in Russia and in China. Pakistan is an ally" though clearly duplicitous we try perhaps in vain to keep them somewhat controlled since they have nukes as does our ally India.
Air force leaders do not set our agenda.
Pakistan is an ally? You are gaslighting or you are Blinken magnitude stupid.
Pakistan gave sanctuary or hid Al Qaeda (most famously), the Haqqani network, and the Taliban.
With your mealy mouthed forked tongue definition of ally, we might as well as include Russia and China. They are duplicitous and the have nukes.
Air Force leaders set policy, but they advise the President and a Congress about what in their educated opinion it should be, since they are or should be subject matter experts in their field.
I give you a grade of 20 out 100 for your effort. #Fail
This is the first thing came in my head years back when I started to see and read that US forces are shifting away from Middle East.
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