Air Force undersecretary gives bleak assessment on service’s readiness to defend the homeland

Air Force Undersecretary Matthew Lohmeier provided a bleak assessment of the service’s current readiness outlook, calling it “older, smaller, and less ready than it needs to be to defend the homeland and deter aggression in the Pacific.” The undersecretary’s warning about the dangers of the service’s chronic underinvestment came during his keynote address on Monday, […] ...