OPINION — “The Air Force we have employed for the last 20 or 30 years is not the Air Force we need to succeed in the environment we are facing today … We have to balance how much we are investing in meeting the requirements of today while also preparing for what may come upon us in the future.”
That was Lt. Gen. James C. Slife, Deputy Air Force Chief of Staff for Operations during a February interview with the Dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, USAF (Ret.).
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