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Air Force Weighing Needs For New Irregular Warfare Wing, Light Attack Platform

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Monday, April 27th, 2009

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By Marina Malenic In keeping with a Pentagon plan to dedicate a portion of the department's permanent budget to irregular warfare capabilities, the Air Force is examining how to institutionalize its efforts in that domain, the service's top uniformed official said last week. "We will have a meeting in June where the Air Force leadership is going to decide what the institutional architecture will be for the commitment we think is necessary in this mission space," Norton Schwartz, the service's…

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