AIR FORCE PONDERING STAND-UP OF IRREGULAR WARFARE WING

/ April 30, 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 last week. 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 an April 24 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...

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