Hey everyone, welcome back to the Airman's Pulse.

I'm your host, Patrick Slive and Spadden, and I'm really glad you're here.

This show is for airmen, especially junior airmen,

for trying to make sense of everything happening around them.

Big decisions get made every day about strategy, budgets, readiness, and modernization.

But those decisions don't always show up in a way that makes sense at the squadron level. Today's episode is about cutting through that noise. We're looking

at the new national security strategy and anticipate a national defense strategy and what they

really mean for the Air Force. Right now the service is being asked to defend the homeland,

maintain global deterrence, and operate across the Western Hemisphere, all

while flying fewer hours, managing an aging force, and navigating a slow and complex acquisition

system. To help me unpack this, we're blessed and really looking forward to chat here with

Lieutenant General David Dutua. If you're not familiar to General Dutua, it's a decorated

F-15 fighter pilot and one of the preeminent air power thinkers of the modern era.

Over a 34-year Air Force career, he logged more than 3,000 flying hours, including over 400 combat hours,

graduated for the fighter weapons school and served in senior Pentagon and joint warfighting command positions.

He also helped shape the Air Force's post-Cold War vision to the

publication of global reach and global power and played a critical role when playing the air

campaign during the Gulf War and beyond. His final assignment on active duty was at the Air

Force's first senior intelligence officer, where he led and restructured intelligence, surveillance,

and reconnaissance across the service. After retiring, he served as an advisor to several

national security organizations or from becoming the founding dean in 2010 of the Mitchell Institute for

Aerospace Studies, where he and his colleagues continue to advocate for air power and the role

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