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If Defense Secretary Robert Gates has his hands full fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, he didn't show it Monday morning when he fired a volley at his own Air Force for doing too little in both war theaters. Gates' comments ricocheted at supersonic speed around the Pentagon and...
Gates, himself a former Air Force officer (he served from 1967-69 in the Strategic Air Command), told young officers at Maxwell Air Force Base that the nation needs new ways of thinking about warfare. Gates may still be smarting from the fact that when he was CIA chief in...
To the horror of some in the Air Force, Gates cited the late John Boyd, who attained the rank of Air Force colonel, as an example young officers should emulate. Gates called him "a brilliant, eccentric and stubborn character" who had to bulldoze his way through the Air Force hierarchy...
Air Force officials, upset by Gates's comments, say they have given him as much surveillance capability as they have. And they suggest that his statements are based on a misunderstanding that stems from a dearth of Air Force officers at the highest levels of the Pentagon's Joint Staff...
But the Air Force may have been its own worst enemy. A contract awarded to Boeing for a new fleet of aerial tankers had to be rebid after the corruption involved in the decision had been exposed; the new bidding process was won by a European consortium. Twice in the...