The Trump Administration: Facing the Challenge of Enhancing the Ready Force in the Short to Midterm
04/02/2025
By Robbin Laird
President Trump has announced that there will be a shipbuilding office in the White House and a new F-47 for the Air Force. While adding longer-term platforms to the force has its place, the critical need now is the ramp up the readiness and the capabilities of the “fight tonight force.”
This means enhancing supply chains and the provision of parts and supplies for the force are a crucial investment in the near term. With the forces emphasizing force distribution, the challenge for global logistics, indeed contested logistics, requires much more investment and attention to force sustainability.
The force we will have a decade out is already 80% here. And the United States and its allies can find ways to leverage the current force to enable it to become more survivable and lethal.
And doing so will unleash the power of new technologies which are ready and available to be integrated into an evolving force, not defined by future systems in 2035 but deployed in the near term.
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