The US and South Korea agreed last week to leave an American commander in charge—for the time being—of the combined US-South Korean forces in the event of a war on the peninsula.
The Air Force’s nascent KC-Z program, aimed at developing a next-generation family of systems for aerial refueling, will look to launch its analysis-of-alternatives study in 2024, years earlier than originally planned. Originally, the analysis of alternatives for KC-Z was set for “maybe in the 2030s,” Paul Waugh, program executive officer…