Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Episode 136 — It’s Time to Reset the Force: Leadership Conversation with Lt Gen Mike Loh, Director of the ANG
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Episode 136 — It’s Time to Reset the Force: Leadership Conversation with Lt Gen Mike Loh, Director of the ANG
Episode Summary:
In Episode 136 of the Aerospace Advantage, It’s Time to Reset the Force: Leadership Conversation with Lt Gen Mike Loh, Director of the ANG, Doug Birkey explores the modernization challenges facing the Air National Guard and the Air Force as a whole with Lt Gen Mike Loh, along with Mitchell Institute’s Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.) and Heather Penney.
The Air Force’s fighter inventory is too small and too old to meet demands placed upon it. Aircraft are now physically worn out and must be retired, but the Air Force lacks the necessary funding to procure a sufficient volume of new fighters to ensure the outflow of aging aircraft is matched by new replacements. We saw this in the fall of 2022 when F-15s stationed at Kadena were retired without direct, permanently assigned backfills—the aircraft were simply not available. This will be repeated absent a significant boost in the scale and scope of new aircraft buys. The modernization imperative disproportionately impacts the ANG given that those units generally possess the service’s oldest equipment. Force structure realities see the ANG necessary to meet COCOM demands, especially those tied to homeland defense. It’s time to focus on solutions.
Credits:
Host: Douglas Birkey, Executive Director, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Producer: Shane Thin
Executive Producer: Douglas Birkey
Guest: Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.), Dean, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Guest: Heather Penney, Senior Fellow, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Guest: Lt Gen Michael Loh, Director, Air National Guard
Links:
Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://bit.ly/3GbA5Of
Website: https://mitchellaerospacepower.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MitchellStudies
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mitchell.Institute.Aerospace
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3nzBisb
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mitchellstudies/
#MitchellStudies #AerospaceAdvantage #ANG #force
Thank you for your continued support!
View all episodes
By The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
4.6
101101 ratings
Episode Summary:
In Episode 136 of the Aerospace Advantage, It’s Time to Reset the Force: Leadership Conversation with Lt Gen Mike Loh, Director of the ANG, Doug Birkey explores the modernization challenges facing the Air National Guard and the Air Force as a whole with Lt Gen Mike Loh, along with Mitchell Institute’s Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.) and Heather Penney.
The Air Force’s fighter inventory is too small and too old to meet demands placed upon it. Aircraft are now physically worn out and must be retired, but the Air Force lacks the necessary funding to procure a sufficient volume of new fighters to ensure the outflow of aging aircraft is matched by new replacements. We saw this in the fall of 2022 when F-15s stationed at Kadena were retired without direct, permanently assigned backfills—the aircraft were simply not available. This will be repeated absent a significant boost in the scale and scope of new aircraft buys. The modernization imperative disproportionately impacts the ANG given that those units generally possess the service’s oldest equipment. Force structure realities see the ANG necessary to meet COCOM demands, especially those tied to homeland defense. It’s time to focus on solutions.
Credits:
Host: Douglas Birkey, Executive Director, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Producer: Shane Thin
Executive Producer: Douglas Birkey
Guest: Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.), Dean, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Guest: Heather Penney, Senior Fellow, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Guest: Lt Gen Michael Loh, Director, Air National Guard
Links:
Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://bit.ly/3GbA5Of
Website: https://mitchellaerospacepower.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MitchellStudies
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mitchell.Institute.Aerospace
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3nzBisb
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mitchellstudies/
#MitchellStudies #AerospaceAdvantage #ANG #force
Thank you for your continued support!
More shows like The Aerospace Advantage
View all
War on the Rocks
1,065 Listeners
Aviation Week's Check 6 Podcast
394 Listeners
Modern War Institute
778 Listeners
The President’s Inbox
713 Listeners
Defense & Aerospace Report
140 Listeners
Defense One Radio
142 Listeners
Fighter Pilot Podcast
1,867 Listeners
Net Assessment
414 Listeners
Urban Warfare Project
217 Listeners
The Afterburn Podcast
923 Listeners
Irregular Warfare Podcast
404 Listeners
The Mitchell Institute’s Aerospace Nation Podcast
11 Listeners
School of War
443 Listeners
The Merge
347 Listeners
NatSec Matters
257 Listeners