Kill the Air Force!

By John

Robert Farley sees a brave new military world over at the American Prospect: a world without the US Air Force.

What it does on its own -- strategic bombing -- isn't suited to modern warfare. What it does well -- its tactical support missions -- could be better managed by the Army and Navy. It's time to break up the Air Force

Here's the column: What's the Air Force for?

I was flattered to join Robert, the Danger Room crew, Jason Sigger of Armchair Generalist, Michael Goldfarb of The Weekly Standard, and David Axe of War is Boring in a roundtable discussion on whether or not the Air Force should be rolled back into the Army.

You can read the chat here.

I'm closing comments on this one, I'd rather have you guys go over to Prospect and weigh in there.

I will say this. Although not everyone agreed that we should burn the AF (I voted nay), feelings were unanimous that the Air Force is without a compass and a paddle. I joked with Robert about the amount of hate mail that he'd get over this one, but honestly.... good on him for recognizing the problem, and organizing a non-partisan roundtable to talk out solutions.

Also, my buddy Bruce at QandO launches his own discussion about Robert's column here.

November 1, 2007 11:26 PM Leadership