As you continue to enjoy your dessert, id like to begin our program because we have a very special program today. I think the most special of the eight that weve had in this annual observance of steve indicators birthday. Im Stuart Mclaurin and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. Welcome you to our campus here at historic Decatur House and on behalf of our board of directors, our National Council on white house history and my staff colleagues, i would like to welcome you here to the White House Historical association and historic Decatur House for this eighth observance. This actually began in 2006, and weve done it every year. Of course, with covid. We had to go virtual, but weve had wonderful, extraordinary speakers each time. And this time is going to be no different. You had the opportunity to hear earlier from former secretary of the Navy John Dalton, and also hes also a former member of the board of directors here at the associat
As you continue to enjoy your dessert, id like to begin our program because we have a very special program today. I think the most special of the eight that weve had in this annual observance of steve indicators birthday. Im Stuart Mclaurin and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. Welcome you to our campus here at historic Decatur House and on behalf of our board of directors, our National Council on white house history and my staff colleagues, i would like to welcome you here to the White House Historical association and historic Decatur House for this eighth observance. This actually began in 2006, and weve done it every year. Of course, with covid. We had to go virtual, but weve had wonderful, extraordinary speakers each time. And this time is going to be no different. You had the opportunity to hear earlier from former secretary of the Navy John Dalton, and also hes also a former member of the board of directors here at the associat
Thank you. Live now to the Mitchell Institute for aerospace studies, group is holding a discussion on the future of air warfare. To top u. S. Air force officials, live coverage here on cspan2. We joined in progress. We have russias next generation, the as 500 to be capable of engaging targets as far away as charlotte and buffalo. As you can see the systems are being deployed worldwide and this trend will only continue as additional nations seek to neutralize our air power advantage. Variants of the same to invoice on the globe where our air forces operate. Moving onto airbase evince the production and proliferation of advanced fighters poses another escalate escalating challenge to our Legacy Fighter force and even our new fifthgeneration aircraft. One only has to look at trends and Aircraft Development over the past several decades to see where our legacy systems are being overtaken. Today are most numerous fighters are outmatched by the latest russian and chinese designs. Every stage
America. Yesterday, a panel of activeduty and retired u. S. Air force officials discussed the importance of maintaining air superiority on the global stage. Posted by the Mitchell Institute for aerospace studies, this is about an hour. Our fellow on panel, which we are fortunate to have with us. Deputy chief of staff for the airports for operations nolan and his partner, lieutenant mison. L dash ja a cat bit of introduction for you all. I think most of the people in this room understand that air superiority is a tenet of National Security operation. We cant succeed unless we have it. However, in terms of quantity of aircraft, the United States air force has been on a down slide for over 25 years now. The air force has 59 fewer fighter squadrons than it had during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, but we had 130 four squadrons at the time. Got 33 fewer people and fewer total aircraft. At the same time, the air force is operating a geriatric force that is becoming more so every day. Bomber
The future youre welcome to send questions or comments. Simply email speaker heritage. Org and of course well post todays program on the heritage front page for everyones future reference as well. Leading our discussion today is daniel kochis. Daniel is our policy analyst at the Margaret Thatcher center for free and pretty focused on transatlantic security issues. His writings have been featured in real clear world foxnews. Com breitbart. Com and he has provided expert analysis for 100 radio and Television Appearances he has also served as a panelist at the transatlantic think tank conference in brussels belgium and provided parliamentary into the house of Lords Select Committee on the arctic. Prior to joining us here at heritage in the Thatcher Center he worked for a nonprofit in washington d. C. Is a policy analyst as well as on the Advisory Board company as a Research Associate in the associate director. Please join me in welcoming daniel kochis. [applause] thank you john and good m