Biden may soon tap Gen. C.Q. Brown to replace Gen. Milley as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, so I'm reposting my Fox News Opinion piece on Brown written in June 2020.  Brown is from an under-represented group: the Air Force.  Only 4 of 20 Chairmen have come from the Air Force, and the last was Gen. Richard Myers, who retired in 2005.  Before Myers, the gap went back to 1982.  With threats from China affecting air, space and cyberspace too, America needs an airman as the most senior military adviser.  Brown is a fighter pilot who ...

The new B-21 bomber unveiled Dec. 2 is still holding many, many secrets.  Read my Opinion piece from FOX News here.  China is desperate to know if the Air Force’s B-21 stealth bomber is capable of unmanned flight.  Then there's the question of what the bomber is designed to attack, whether it can fly without pilots, where the engines are, and more.  The B-21 is so cool and capable, I'm advocating for a starring role in Top Gun 3, if Tom Cruise ever produces it.  

It's nice to shock China.  On Dec. 2, the Air Force rolled out the super-secret B-21.   I was there, and wow.  This is a strikingly beautiful,  advanced bomber.  Read more of my opinions on the B-21 for FOX News.  Russia and China have nothing like this new stealth bomber.  "It's a testament to our strategy of deterrence," Sec Def Lloyd Austin said.  Frankly, the Air Force has done a poor job buying new planes recently, but here's a chance for Congress and the USAF to budget for cost-efficient production, maybe 15 per year at peak.  The B-21 ...

Putin's running out of military options.   Read my latest Fox News Opinion piece on nuclear threats, Russia's call-up of reserve forces, and why the recapture of Izyum was so significant.  Remember Putin has made nuclear threats before.  The Pentagon says the Russian forces that handle nuclear weapons have not change their posture -- which means Putin's not getting ready to release a nuke.  

Detonating a Russian nuclear weapon will not win the war in Ukraine for Putin. Don’t forget China is already nervous about Russia’s military failures; use of a nuclear weapon by Putin could break ...

Forget whoever said there's a stalemate in the Ukraine war.  At the 3-month mark, it's a hot fight every day on a 100-mile, curving front near the city of Kramatorsk.  Russia has forces north and south trying to snap the jaws shut.  Zelenskyy must hold the roads east of Kramatorsk if he hopes to push out Russian forces.  Read more from my FOX News Opinion piece. 

Putin wants to catch Zelensky and take Kyiv.  His model?  Berlin, 1945.   Read my Fox News Opinion piece on why time's running out to supply Ukraine.  At the end of World War II, Russia's Red Army took Berlin from Hitler's Nazis.  Russia was our ally then, but that model of victory  may stick in Putin's mind.  He was born in 1952 but Putin's family suffered through the Siege of Leningrad and lost his elder brother and many other relatives in World War II.  The city fight won't be easy.  Ukraine's forces have fought ...

Forget whoever said there's a stalemate in the Ukraine war.  At the 3-month mark, it's a hot fight every day on a 100-mile, curving front near the city of Kramatorsk.  Russia has forces north and south trying to snap the jaws shut.  Zelenskyy must hold the roads east of Kramatorsk if he hopes to push out Russian forces.  Read more from my FOX News Opinion piece. 

B-2s are at the center of war plans, for every theater of operations around the globe. 

B-2 Stealth Bomber At War  highlights twenty years of missions as seen by pilots and the team of the Air Force's 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB.  The story begins with the B-2's first flight on July 17, 1989.  Ten years later, the B-2 went to war for the first time in NATO's Operation Allied Force, introducing precision, all-weather stealth attack in the 78-day air campaign.  In 2001, a B-2 crew set the record for a combat mission at 44.3 ...

Data fusion at the tactical edge is a top need for the US military's new concept for Multi-Domain Operations.  US forces came to rely on combat data networks developed in battles in Afghanistna, Iraq and Syria.  But Russia and China's electronic warfare and cyber systems threaten US combat networks.  Fortunately, the technology is ready to test smart data fusion hubs: a new type of network "box" that fits on current airplanes, ships and other platforms to process, sort and refine data in real time, at the tactical edge, while operations are underway.   Over time, the connections and processing ...

New engines can boost the range and payload of the US Army's Blackhawk and Apache helicopters.  GE and ATEC, a Pratt&Whitney and Honeywell team, are developing improved turbine engines to remove and replace on Arny helicopters.  This viatla competition will power up Army missions, making it possible to carry more soldiers, equipment and to omit hazardous forward area refuelings.  Under any budget IREP is a vital Army program -- and one that makes sense for America's global missions and counterterrorism fight.

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US military options in the Pacific depend on airpower.  This paper examines how stealth and legacy fighters like the F-35, F-22 and F/A-18 among others may be deployed to counteract Chinese activity and give US commanders maximum options. 

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