The Air Force has selected Clark Realty to develop its AMC East Military Housing Privatization project to improve housing at Andrews AFB, Md., and MacDill AFB, Fla. Clark has worked and is working on various military housing projects. In this most recent public-private venture, Clark will “finance, plan, design, and construct improvements at each base, as well as own and operate the rental housing for 50 years,” states a company release. Sean Callahan, Clark development executive, said, “We have a long track record of improving quality of life for the Army, Navy, and Marines, and look forward to continuing this tradition for our nation’s Air Force families.”
While U.S. defense officials have spent much of the past decade warning that China is the nation’s pacing threat and its People’s Liberation Army represents an urgent threat in the Indo-Pacific, several defense researchers are skeptical that the PLA has the human capital, the structural ability, or the political appetite…