ALARMIST RHETORIC: Today, the U.S. Air Force faces an almost-existential crisis… The U.S. military is woefully unprepared for warfare in this newly contested subdomain of the air littoral. Needless to say, the U.S. drone inventory looks nothing at all like Ukraine’s. It is a fraction of its size and scale, focusing on small numbers of highly advanced systems.
Boils down to old retired military dudes in a pissing contest, but I have questions. Is the honorable retired general unaware how drone technology has been a high-priority USAF focus ever since Gates fired the Air Boss back in…? Maybe he didn’t get the memo about ongoing Ai integration in the CCA program? I’ll forgive him for being ahead of the times Billy Mitchell was sinking battleships in this same scenario.
I am somewhat familiar with how the Army operates, and please believe me when I say they never seem to be opposed to doing things the hard way. He contradicts himself with a link to our own massive drone inventory. No, what we have here is an old ground pounder waxing nostalgic on the glory days before the zoomies started having all the military fun. I agree his guys need better localized drone protection. Try slicing up the Army budget correctly first, before eyeing bigger shares of DoD – and whenever they get in a real hot spot (not a 1-off blunder), just radio the nest locations and we’ll cluster the whole outfit with one shot, for ya. 😉
