World: Readiness

July 1, 2022
Flying hours decline; Contract Red Air; Tyndall rebuild.
Gen. John E. Hyten, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with John A. Tirpak about strategic requirements, roles and missions, budget trades, space, and the industrial base.
The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff doesn't see a need for a new roles and missions debate, preferring to let the services pursue their own new capabilities—such as long-range fires—and sort them out afterwards. Gen. John E. Hyten, in an interview set ...
For most, space policy is still more science fiction than reality—the stuff of a galaxy far, far away. People imagine laser-toting gunships and interplanetary bases, not airmen at consoles adjusting satellites in orbit. Those perceptions have persisted through about 18 months of pressure from the ...