{"id":14821,"date":"2018-09-18T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T17:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/09\/18\/goldfein-air-force-must-return-to-expeditionary-roots-to-fight-next-war\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:13:12","slug":"goldfein-air-force-must-return-to-expeditionary-roots-to-fight-next-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/air-force-association\/2018\/09\/18\/goldfein-air-force-must-return-to-expeditionary-roots-to-fight-next-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldfein: Air Force must return to expeditionary roots to fight next war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein on Tuesday called on the service to return to its roots as a service that can quickly deploy and set up new bases \u2014 even under fire \u2014 as it prepares for future conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his keynote address to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/09\/18\/bombers-fighters-and-tankers-unite-will-the-air-force-rebuild-composite-wings-to-fight-near-peer-foes\/\" target=_blank>Air Force Association\u2019s Air Space Cyber<\/a> conference in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/air-force-association\/\" target=_blank>National Harbor, Maryland<\/a>, Goldfein said that since 9\/11, the Air Force has moved away from the expeditionary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/09\/17\/air-force-on-warrant-officers-thanks-but-no-thanks\/\" target=_blank>Air Force<\/a> model unveiled in 1998 by former Secretary Whitten Peters and former Chief of Staff Gen. Mike Ryan. Goldfein called that model \u201ca brilliant vision\u201d that served the Air Force well in Iraq and Kosovo in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Goldfein said, the Air Force has become a place that often \u201ccannibalizes itself&#8221; to send forward small groups, or even individual airmen, to join mature campaigns with established leadership, basing and command-and-control infrastructure. That \u201cmuscle\u201d is regularly exercised, Goldfein said, and the Air Force is good at those kinds of deployments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that\u2019s not going to be the case in a potential fight against peer nations with well established, modern militaries such as Russia or China. The Pentagon\u2019s new National Defense Strategy focuses on what it calls the return to great power competition, and the Air Force is shifting its posture to be ready for such a conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/09\/17\/air-force-calls-for-74-more-squadrons-to-prepare-for-possibility-of-war-against-major-power\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4569563.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Air Force calls for 74 more squadrons to prepare for possibility of war against major power<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson on Monday called for growing the Air Force from its current size of 312 operational squadrons to 386 by 2030, as it prepares for a possible conflict against a major nation such as China or Russia.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That means the time has come again to return to a force that can go overseas and establish and defend new bases, receive follow-on forces, establish command and control, and fight from those new bases, he said \u2014 even while under attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe next fight, the one we must prepare for as laid out in the National Defense Strategy, may not have fixed bases, infrastructure and established command and control, with leaders already forward, ready to receive follow-on forces,\u201d Goldfein said. \u201cSo it\u2019s time to return to our expeditionary roots. 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