Of course, with our capabilities of global reach and global power come new challenges and responsibilities. 11 Aerospace control with precision weapons gives us a war-winning strategy for the future. Only air power can threaten every enemy's leadership, infrastructure, military, and national will on day one of the conflict. Any way you cut it, we will need smart airplanes with smart weapons to meet the challenges of the future. He is right.
People are always more important.
All the so-called smart weapons in the world could not distinguish their own tail fins from the Pentagon if it were not for the smarter people who develop, build, maintain, and program them. Outstanding Air Force people around the world helped our country win the last war, and with the support of our defense industry, they are already developing the weapons we will need to win the next one. According to the Gulf War Air Power Survey Data Base, we used approximately 180 tons of precision munitions a day in Desert Storm. Our airlift capacity from the continental United States to Southwest Asia was 6,500 tons a day. The bottom line is that we can rapidly deploy and easily sustain precision munitions.