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burritocannon said:

i don't think what they're saying is weird. what is weird is the situation. the unfortunate reality is that it's not an airforce problem, but a national problem -- i think the cut and dry of it is that the us is actually out of capital. everything's too inflated here, there's no reason it should proverbially take a hundred dollars and a phd to turn around and wipe your ass but such seems to be the cost of the lies we tell each other to stay on top. perhaps someday historical texts will draw a parallel between the us and the spartans and their divestiture of menial work to the lowly helots...
back to the point though, for these officers it's not in their wheelhouse to speak outside of what the air force can or would like to do about it. it's possible that at this point an air force in no realistic form can be the correct tool for the job, where a us that must contest china under austerity may have to resort to more guerilla tactics of information and cultural warfare instead of kinetic interventions. what role does the air force have in that? in other words, asking the air force to come up with an airpower-centric solution might be something that resembles asking a t-rex what it needs to prosper after the asteroid has already landed. the air force officers certainly can't say a defeatist thing like "nah, we're fucked, i know none of these reforms will go through." they can only say what they think they would need for the job to get done.
and so having spoken out according to their conscience, they have washed their hands of any responsibility for the aftermath, which will be passed successively onwards towards congress and eventually down to the citizenry.

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4Tran said:

Their solution? More money, but over time so that this money can be absorbed properly.

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