A-10s dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on an enemy building in Zormat, Afghanistan, May 26, Air Forces Central announced May 27. A joint terminal attack controller declared the attacks a success. Overall coalition aircraft flew 49 close air supports missions that day in Afghanistan and 54 in Iraq.
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…