...for decades, the land-based leg of America’s nuclear triad has sat within a military service fundamentally mismatched to the mission. -
Todd Harrison What remains is an ICBM force
sliding into
disrepair and a
troubled modernization program that is
81 percent over budget and risks undermining the credibility of America’s nuclear deterrent...
There are
three fundamental reasons why the Air Force is no longer a fit for the ICBM mission, and why the Army is.
- First, as Wilsbach’s message indicates, silo-based missiles are simply not core to the Air Force identity or mission, and they never will be...
- Second, the missileer career field has no natural synergy with the rest of the Air Force and is increasingly orphaned and disconnected...the missileer career field has chronic morale problems, limited promotion opportunities, and an unsustainable size — issues documented repeatedly over the past 30 years...
In contrast, the
Army already operates all of the nation’s other land-based missiles, including the military’s only other silo-based missiles — the
ground-based interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
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