Pictured are the tails of F-16 fighters with the 80th Fighter Squadron at Eielson AFB, Alaska on Thursday in preparation for the Red Flag Alaska 25-2 exercise in which 70 planes are to participate (U.S. Air Force Photo)
Facing a “China scenario”–an invasion of Taiwan–continuously mentioned by top DoD officials in recent years would require sheer system number that the U.S. may not have.
For their part, U.S. Air Force leaders have said that a thousand…