How the US Air Force's internal restructuring process will impact its capacity to project power
Two C-17 Globemaster IIIs trade leading and following positions within their flight path during the Tactics Advancement Course. (Photo: US Air Force)
The service’s strategy includes measures to improve training, reduce bureaucracy, get ready for joint missions and accelerate the development and field of systems and solutions.
The US Air Force (USAF) has been conducting an internal restructuring process aiming at better-preparing equipment, airmen and guardians for deployment in the current great power competition scenario.
Announced in February, the strategy comprises near and long-term initiatives to modernise the branch and better project power worldwide. It includes measures to improve training, reduce bureaucracy, get ready for joint missions, and accelerate the development and field of systems and solutions.
Gen David Allvin, chief of staff for the USAF, stressed that rapid advances in technology “are becoming more and more integral to national security and national defence” and require improvements
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