#PRC: PLA-AirForce: Rudimentary and equipment uncertain. Blaine Holt, retired air Force general who served as deputy military representative to NATO, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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🗓️ 15 February 2024
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#PRC: PLA-AirForce: Rudimentary and equipment uncertain. Blaine Holt, retired air Force general who served as deputy military representative to NATO, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/02/air-force-reorganization-frank-kendall-china/
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| 0:00.0 | This is a series of CBSi in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Gordon Chang. I've |
| 0:08.5 | Gordon Gee Chang. joins me my colleague and friend and co-host, the Air Force, the headline. Air Force launches |
| 0:16.5 | reorganization warning we are out of time to match China. Subhead, under the re-optimizing effort changes are coming across the |
| 0:25.6 | Department of the Air Force from new training approaches to the establishment of |
| 0:30.4 | high-level offices. This is puzzling Gordon. I thought everything was going |
| 0:36.5 | well so we turned to our colleague Blaine Holt retired Air Force General who |
| 0:41.7 | served as deputy military Representative at NATO. |
| 0:44.3 | Blaying a very good day to you, reorganizing the Air Force, it was doing just fine, |
| 0:48.9 | what happened, what are they reorganizing from? Good evening to you. |
| 0:51.8 | Good evening to both of you. You know, it's an unfortunate happenstance and it's |
| 0:57.5 | almost a rule of thumb in the military or massive bureaucracies that when you've run out of ideas and things aren't going your way, |
| 1:06.6 | then the next step is reorganization, and if it's even really worse than that, then you'll |
| 1:12.0 | start to see a uniform board to change what the uniform looks like. |
| 1:15.7 | The unfortunate part is, however the Air Force or the Navy want to reorganize their forces or |
| 1:21.8 | represent their chains of command. |
| 1:24.0 | Building in additional bureaucracies is not going to get us cheaper weapons. |
| 1:29.0 | Adding layers or calling things more politically astute names like Airman Development Center instead |
| 1:35.8 | of Air Education and Training Command will not make you more lethal or more fearsome to a determined |
| 1:41.0 | foe. What we have here is is cancerous Marxist ideology is running in our military now in this |
| 1:50.8 | D. E. I rush, diversity, equity, inclusion rush and that supplants the meritocracy. |
| 1:56.0 | That's what gives the military its fine edge. |
| 1:59.6 | And it's demoralizing when you don't have that and the recruitment numbers and the retention numbers show that and unfortunately the Chinese the Iranians |
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