Col. Gail Wojtowicz, the Air Force’s division chief for future concepts and transformation, is leading a three-day war game exercise to test the service’s abilities in the year 2025. (DR, 10/03/05) Wojtowicz told Reuters that 100 researchers and other officials are taking part in the desktop exercise, examining Air Force ability to respond to homeland threats, terrorism, and combat proliferation of nuclear arms and fighting two conventional wars simultaneously. The wargamers get an added wrinkle—tackle these scenarios in a gaunt budget environment. Now, that is realism.
A Defense Department team is on the ground in Ukraine assessing what the country needs to protect itself from air, naval, electronic, and cyber warfare threats as Russian troops gather on multiple fronts, a senior Ukrainian defense official told Air Force Magazine, describing an emphasis on what assistance can be…