Aesop's Fables

We have an interesting set of rants here and here by some who have never seen the United States Air Force in action, up close, for extended periods of time. This is necessary in order to appreciate how the USAF actually operates.

Both the good and the bad.

First though, in order for anything like getting rid of the USAF to happen, one would need the following:

-Air power leaders: we do not have any. We have officers that game the system, collect merit badges, retire and work for industry.

-Land warfare leaders: we do not have any. We have officers that game the system, collect merit badges, retire and work for industry. Or some other fantasy devoid of reality. In the case of the United States Army, we have not had a real warrior general since Desert Storm.

Now hiring for job that has been vacant for over 20 years.

-Sea power leaders: we do not have any. We have officers that game the system, collect merit badges, retire and work for industry.

This high level of leadership incompetence gives us the Joint Strike Fighter, the Littoral Combat Ship, $15B aircraft carriers, "destroyers" that are the size of a pocket battleship, the faulty Stryker, Bradley and M-1 and so on.

Yet there is another serious problem besides the vacancy in senior leadership. For any true reorganization of the DOD to take place, it first must be audited.

This has never happened.

The President, The Hill and DOD have no grasp of what the Pentagon actually spends.

As time passes, and the corrupt leadership behavior continues, the U.S. Department of Defense will become an even more inept "fighting force".

The one action of disbanding the USAF won't solve any problems. Academia's score on that idea?

An "F".

Go ahead and do it. The existing bad senior leadership dysfunction would still continue.