Aperture

摘要

Just over a year ago, the Air Force was primed to take advantage of an "orderly transition" of the Afghanistan drawdown in order to focus on what Assistant Vice Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Stephen L. Hoog labeled "the three Rs"-regroup, reset, and retrain. However, Hoog said the "rapid succession" of the Crimea crisis, the ISIS offensive into Iraq, and the Ebola breakout in late summer of 2014 upended these plans. Nevertheless, USAF airmen and allied partners responded to all three events fluidly, Hoog said, and in doing so have solidified airpower's perceived importance to the joint force at a critical time.