It’s Time To Rethink Aerial Warfare

By Walter Pincus

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders. Pincus won an Emmy in 1981 and was the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy in 2010.  He was also a team member for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and the George Polk Award in 1978.  

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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