This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. The Air Force and imagination. They go together.

The Air Force, originally the U.S. Army Air Force, became the Air Force during the Cold War.

And today, its mission statement is considerably broader. However, I welcome General Blaine

Holt, United States Air Force retired, to help me understand some specialized language used in a piece

published by Colonel Maximilian Bremer, published very prominently in breaking defense, obliging the American people to consider that the

Air Force, as successful as it is, lacks imagination. What does that mean? Blaine, a very good

evening to you. The Colonel also says that this is a dangerous thing to lack imagination. As I

understand it, the great success

of the Air Force is the reason it's being cautious, the F-16, the B-52, the mission statement in the

Cold War, responding to every Soviet threat. All well done. What is it that you believe the

colonel now sees about the Air Force that can be

corrected? Good evening to you. Good evening. I can't tell you how encouraged I am by Colonel

Bremer's article because he's pointing out what airmen, who of significance have pointed out throughout

the Air Force's history,

which is there's a fresh and different way to look at everything.

There's an innovative way to look at everything.

That's where we get recalcitrance like Billy Mitchell and Carl Spots and Claire Schnault.

And where the colonel in this important piece is going is that we have become far too mechanical and bureaucratic in our processes with regard to procurement and acquisition.

And they drive incremental changes that cost us far too much money.

And where we need to be is innovative, constantly moving, constantly reaching with smaller

amounts of money that keeps our adversaries guessing as to what the true capabilities

of this US Air Force are.

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