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General Charles Q. Brown, JR. Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force

Defense Writers Group

February 17, 2021

DWG:  This is a Defense Writer’s Group conversation with General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. who is the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.  Sir, it’s really an honor to have you with us.  I’m going to recognize people to ask you questions basically in the order in which they signed up.  We were just joking about how quickly people do that, knowing that that’s the system.  But I’m going to ask one first question.

When you started as Chief, you wrote a sort of strategic view that the Air Force needs to accelerate change or lose.  And you said if it didn’t, it would not remain competitive and that the consequences could be profound.