Col. Gail Wojtowicz, the Air Force’s division chief for future concepts and transformation, is leading a three-day war game exercise to test the service’s abilities in the year 2025. (DR, 10/03/05) Wojtowicz told Reuters that 100 researchers and other officials are taking part in the desktop exercise, examining Air Force ability to respond to homeland threats, terrorism, and combat proliferation of nuclear arms and fighting two conventional wars simultaneously. The wargamers get an added wrinkle—tackle these scenarios in a gaunt budget environment. Now, that is realism.
The Pentagon is counting on Congress to navigate a legislative tightrope and pass a party-line bill to fund nearly a quarter of its $1.5 trillion budget request for fiscal 2027, including billions of dollars for top priorities like Golden Dome, the F-35, munitions, and unmanned systems. Experts and lawmakers from…