Airpower After Sequestration

摘要

USAF Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh Ill and CMSAF James A. Cody visited airmen in the Asia-Pacific region in August. There's no getting around it, they repeated often: The institutional and operational Air Force will look much different from what anyone had planned. Air Force Magazine covered the trip firsthand. "We're going to get smaller, and we're not going to get a whole lot more new stuff," said Welsh bluntly to airmen and in private calls with wing leadership at stops in Japan and South Korea. The service must commit to the F-35 strike fighter, the KC-46 tanker, the long-range strike bomber, and other core programs. Overall, however, few programs will be immune from budget reductions.