"Construction of the security force camp at Radio Range is ahead of schedule, " Lehnert said.
At present the nation's long-range bomber force consists primarily of two aircraft: the B-52 and the B-1.
It is described by the United States Air Force as the modern backbone of America's long-range bomber force, built for low-level, high-speed missions.
Advocates of close relations with China maintain that its military strength has been overrated by Americans in search of an enemy: they point to China's lack of long-range naval power and the poor training of its air-force pilots.
Area denial refers to those actions and capabilities, usually of shorter range, designed not to keep an opposing force out, but to limit its freedom of action within the operational area.
So with their aging fleet of barely 160 long-range bombers facing a growing array of operational challenges, Air Force leaders have reluctantly come to the conclusion that they need to buy a new bomber.
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The long-range bomber force dwindled to a handful of decrepit Cold War aircraft.
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Approximately 45 percent of the future long-range strike force would be unmanned.
Policymakers knew America needed its own force of long-range missiles to deter a Russian attack, but deterrence was a new idea so they also wanted to have the protection provided by real defenses.
But even if smaller, it must be supremely capable and effective as a force to deal with a range of security challenges.
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The range of action figures includes three servicemen from each force.
"We did discuss a range of options that would be directed to the NATO force overall, which includes both the US force contribution, plus what other NATO countries would contribute as well, " he said at a news conference.
Although the number of F-22 fighters was capped at 187, the Air Force would increase its long-range strike capabilities by 50 percent and the penetrating component of long-range strike by a factor of five by 2025.
Only last month, it fired one in the Gulf of Mexico towards a test range at the Eglin US Air Force Base in western Florida.
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"We cannot secure safer communities on our own and I will also be engaging with a range of partners to increase our capability to protect everyone in our force area, " he said.
Regrettably, even the current U.S. position would impose significant constraints on this force, particularly with respect to the number and range of its missiles.
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Artillery was gradually replaced by tactical missiles in the defensive role, but the Air Force was too busy building a fleet of long-range bombers and supersonic fighters to be bothered with ground-based air defenses, while Army troops had a clear need for such defenses.
Rather than competing with other strategic objectives, a properly sized and modernized two-MRC force structure would be central to the pursuit of the full range of U.S. defense objectives.
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Where does long-range aerial refueling come into the strategic requirements of what is, primarily, a deterrence force?
The other is that, for either air force, predictions of the damage from an attack span a huge range.
Mr Olmert's fatal error was to believe his chief of staff, a former air-force commander, who assured him that Hizbullah's thousands of short-range missiles could be dealt with in the same way.
The national security and commercial implications of this decision have been exacerbated, however, by two other, seemingly unrelated actions: President Obama's decision to stop producing long-range missile defense interceptors and to defer indefinitely any replacement of our aging nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile force.
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The force said it was looking at the factors causing stress at work and offering a "wide range" of support.
These advantages range from the broad and ephemeral (command of the bully pulpit) to obvious perks such as the use of Air Force One, the flying presidential command post and mother of all status symbols.
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