B-21 Bomber Boost? KC-46 Still Late

B-21 Bomber Boost? KC-46 Still Late
B-21 Bomber Boost? KC-46 Still Late

  CORRECTED: What Gen. Harris Meant To Say Was A Total Bomber Fleet of 165; Still “At Least” 100 B-21s WASHINGTON: How many B-21 bombers will the US need? 80? 100? 165? Bound by the president’s budget on one side and congressional appropriations on the other, the head of Air Force acquisition was very careful in…

CJCS Dunford Calls For Strategic Shifts; ‘At Peace Or At War Is Insufficient’

CJCS Dunford Calls For Strategic Shifts; ‘At Peace Or At War Is Insufficient’
CJCS Dunford Calls For Strategic Shifts; ‘At Peace Or At War Is Insufficient’

NATIONAL HARBOR: The increasingly “adversarial” relationships with Russia and China are forcing the Pentagon to classify its previously public National Military Strategy, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says. Classification will allow bolder and more specific discussions of how to manage those relationships and our responses to them, Gen. Joe Dunford told the annual…

New Military Strategy Shows A Dangerous World – But Not How To Deal With It

New Military Strategy Shows A Dangerous World – But Not How To Deal With It
New Military Strategy Shows A Dangerous World – But Not How To Deal With It

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is painfully aware the world is changing. What the military’s clearly still struggling with is how we should change to cope. That’s the less-than-reassuring implication of the new National Military Strategy, released a week ago by the outgoing chairman of the joint chiefs, Gen. Martin Dempsey. (I discuss the strategy and its…