BY THOMAS E. RICKS
MARCH 19, 2015
In recent years, calls to shutter the doors of Air War College have routinely filled the Best Defense blog. Critiqued as “an expensive joke,” Mr. Ricks and others have questioned the value of Air War College and Air University (AU) to our national security. Every year, thousands of our best military officers take a one-year pause from operational, staff, and command positions to attend professional schools — but toward what end? How does all this thinking translate into better policy or more creative ways of matching military means with political ends? As the world grows more dangerous and defense dollars more scarce, how does a bureaucracy stitch together individual insights into logic and evidence for senior decision-makers?
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