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Air Staff officials recently updated the U.S. Air Force Transformation Flight Plan, which spells out the transformation strategy of the Air Force.
According to the secretary of defense's transformation planning guidance, officials in the office of force transformation use the flight plan and the transformation roadmaps from the services and Joint Forces Command to conduct an appraisal of transformation progress. Issues and concerns raised by this appraisal are used to form the secretary's guidance to the services when building their budgets.
"Transformation is critical to give the warfighter more capabilities to address the challenges of the new security environment," said Col. Gail Wojtowicz, chief of the future concepts and transformation division.
"The U.S. military has come a long way since the days of the Cold War when it was expecting to face a Warsaw Pact invasion from large, heavily armed forces or when we sat on alert awaiting an inbound nuclear strike from the Soviet Union," Colonel Wojtowicz said.
"We now must face new, largely nonstate adversaries such as terrorists and insurgents who do not play by the same rules as traditional nation states or...