Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall deserves praise for admitting a hard truth: his organization isn't ready for war with China.
As reported by the Air and Space Forces Magazine, Kendall made his remarks in a podcast."If we were asked tomorrow to go to war against a great power, either Russia or China," Kendall said,"would we be really ready to do that? And I think the answer is not as much as we could be, by a significant margin. And we’ve got to start spending a lot of time thinking about that and figuring out what we're going to do about it.
The reality? Where the U.S. has been resting on past glories and playing whack-a-mole with terrorists, China has been preparing for the Super Bowl performance of a lifetime. Xi Jinping's People's Liberation Army has spent at least two decades fixating on the generation of capabilities that can deny territorial access to the U.S. military and cripple its keystone platforms. In contrast, the U.S. has plodded along as if it is destined to retain perpetual hegemonic power. Today, the U.S.
Of course, rhetoric is the easy part. What Kendall needs now and tomorrow is more funding for more aircraft and weapons of the right type. That means far more long-range anti-ground and anti-ship missiles. It means more F-15EX fighter jets: the F-35 debacle makes that jet too expensive and underarmed to be relied upon for the China fight. But that's just the start.
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