Air Force Pondering Stand-Up of Irregular Warfare Wing

By Marcus Weisgerber / April 24, 2009 at 5:00 AM
The Air Force is contemplating the stand-up of a counterinsurgency-focused irregular warfare wing, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said this morning. A final decision will be made during a top-level meeting of senior Air Force leadership in June, the four-star told a group of industry and military officials during a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington. At that meeting, service leaders will "decide what the institutional architecture is going to be for the commitment we think...

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