The United States Air Force is in an arms race. Decades of dominance have allowed the force to slip into complacency, while near-peer adversaries have quietly developed capabilities to contest U.S. power across all domains. To re-assert America’s military primacy, the U.S. Air Force needs to transform vague buzzwords like lethality, agility, and innovation into a focused mission, using the department’s substantial resources to create an Air Force that can and will win.
President Putin made three foundational assumptions in launching his war against Ukraine that should have been correct but were not. First, Putin assumed the invasion of Ukraine would be a quick and easy fight. Second, he assumed the world would denounce the invasion but tacitly allow it. Third, Putin assumed the war would deter NATO expansion.
