MuskegonPundit: Bombers Necessary to Deter and Defeat | American Enterprise Institute

"...The bungled U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan set off a domino effect that emboldened totalitarian leaders across the globe.

When America projects weakness, our adversaries will seek to capitalize.

...Bombers are the tip of the spear to project air power, given that they are “unique instruments of power,” able to “strike targets with large volumes of kinetic firepower without requiring access to foreign bases and without…the vulnerability associated with regionally based land or sea forces,”...
...Despite bombers’ vital role of keeping the peace and winning wars, the Air Force has seen its bomber fleet plummet from a high of over 400 aircraft at the end of the Cold War to today’s dangerously low level of 141...the smallest and oldest bomber fleet since its inception in 1947...

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