Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne, in a new Letter to Airmen, exhorts airmen to take “advantage of every opportunity to increase” their knowledge so they can “develop and exploit new technologies and tactics.” He uses the term “knowledge-enabled airmen” to describe generations of innovative airmen who continued to learn throughout their careers.
A new Air Force plan for how many fighters it needs in the next decade marks a sharp upturn from what it thought it needed just seven years ago. But analysts worry that the aspirational plan now in Congress' hands doesn’t make a tight enough connection to national strategy.
