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Air Force

USAF Force Structure to Achieve Air Superiority ‘In Multiple Ways’

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025

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USAF Force Structure to Achieve Air Superiority ‘In Multiple Ways’

U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors assigned to the 90th Fighter Squadron take off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska on April 7, 2024, for the Agile Reaper 24-1 exercise (U.S. Air Force Photo).

The Department of the Air Force's future force structure will not be one that relies wholly on standoff and will achieve air superiority "in multiple ways," a service official said on Wednesday. "What we have found is that if you go to an all long-range force, it doesn't win," U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Joseph "Solo" Kunkel, the service’s director for force design, integration, and wargaming, said at the Hudson Institute. "You've got to be forward in order to sustain…

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