He served four years as Air Force Chief of Staff and another four as Joint Chiefs Chairman during a difficult and tumultuous period for the Air Force and Pentagon. Then, at retirement, he created an even larger legacy.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III chaired a China-focused military briefing Oct. 27, part of a biweekly series of briefings with senior military commanders about China’s growing threat in the wake of an orbital hypersonic weapon test that elicited public worries from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. “What we…