Maj. Mikko Levalley joined the list of pilots to reach 1,000 hours in the high-flying U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. He surpassed that mark during a mission last week over Southwest Asia. (USAF photo release by TSgt. Christopher Campbell)
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…