Stop the budgetary bleeding to get the Air Force we need
November 25, 2020
In 2018, then-Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson sounded the alarm regarding the size of her service: “The Air Force is too small for what the nation expects of us.” Her response was direct: The service needed to grow from 312 to 386 operational squadrons.
Given the concurrent demands presented by China and Russia at the high end of the threat spectrum, Iran and North Korea in the…