According to Brig. Gen. Dana Born, the US Air Force Academy is in the midst of a plan that will bring “the most sweeping change in the academy’s 50-year history.” Called the Officer Development System, its intent is “to build officers of character in an incremental fashion by giving each cadet increasing leadership responsibilities,” said Born, who is the academy’s first woman dean of faculty. At the “heart” of the ODS model, she said, is “integrity and mutual respect.”
In the face of Chinese war plans to disrupt U.S. command-and-control networks in the event of a conflict, the Air Force needs to focus less on its “connect everything” efforts and prepare its combat aviators to fight without a constant connection to higher-ups, according to a new report from AFA’s…
