Heather Wilson’s Big Ask to Expand `Too Small' US Air Force

Heather Wilson’s Big Ask to Expand `Too Small' US Air Force
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein brief the media at the Pentagon on November 9, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson is preparing to make her case for billions of dollars in funding that she says her service will need to deliver on the U.S.’s national security strategy.

“The Air Force is too small for what the nation is asking us to do,” Wilson said Oct. 17 in a roundtable with editors and reporters at Bloomberg headquarters in New York. “The difference between what is needed and what is available is measured in risk.”