Speaking Wednesday at a Washington, D.C., conference, Gen. Norton Schwartz, Air Force Chief of Staff, said that the US military and its allies must be able to operate in a GPS-denied environment. The efforts by adversaries to jam or otherwise prohibit use of the position-navigation-timing data provided by the USAF-operated Global Positioning System satellites will only increase. However, having said that, Schwartz maintained that there is no intent to move USAF out of the GPS business. He called such a move “unlikely.”
The U.S. military is sending more fighter jets to the Middle East to step up its war with Iran, adding to what is already the largest buildup of airpower in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. For now, the operation shows little sign of coming to a quick…