Size Matters: A Slim U.S. Air Force Can’t Go Toe-to-Toe With China

The U.S. Air Force Seems To Have a Size and Capabilities Problem: Channeling his inner Mike Mullen, a former Navy chief, the head of the US Air Force said this week that those worried about America’s shrinking, antique air force must “account for all the capacity within our allies and partners.”
But that same logic didn’t work for the US Navy in 2005, and it won’t help the Air Force today.
Years ago, then-Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael M …