Our Airforce Came Up With A Mindset Our Whole Military Should Adapt
Sometime after 2024, according to Tawain officials, China is going to try and take over Taiwan. And since we have already committed to defending them, that means war will likely break out. So we should be preparing for this. Biden should be actively readying our military. But for whatever reason, he doesn't seem to care. But luckily for us, our Airforce does, and they have come up with a new mindset that will greatly help us in the future: “If it doesn’t threaten China, why are we doing it?”
"Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said the service urgently needs to retire outdated air-frames so it can focus on developing modern aircraft to counter a rapidly modernizing Chinese military.
"During a panel here Saturday at the Reagan National Defense Forum, Kendall mentioned MQ-9 Reapers, some C-130s, older tankers, and the A-10 Warthog as examples of aging aircraft that — while useful during counterinsurgency missions in the Middle East over the last two decades — will struggle in a conflict with China.
“If it doesn’t threaten China, why are we doing it?” Kendall said in describing his mindset.
China has focused its own modernization efforts on ways to defeat high-value American assets, Kendall said — “of which the numbers are fairly low.”
Now, the U.S. has to respond to that, Kendall said. But the advancing age of the Air Force’s fleet, which averages about 30 years, is an “anchor holding back the Air Force.”
He lamented that the service has long sought to retire “old iron,” such as the A-10, only to encounter resistance from lawmakers who don’t want programs in their states to lose jobs.
Kendall’s views were echoed by the Air Force’s top officer. In an interview with Defense News Saturday, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown underscored the importance of letting some older air-frames go as a way to allow the service to bring on more F-35s and other newer aircraft.
“It’s really a tough decision of the things we’re going to let go, and how we transition from the current capabilities we have, to get to the capabilities of the future,” Brown said when asked about the choices that will have to be made in the Pentagon’s 2023 budget proposal."
Hopefully, Congress will get on board with this sentiment and allow our Airforce to do what is necessary to prepare for the inevitable conflict. But you never with these Dems, sometimes it seems like they want our country to fail.