The original plan was flawed. They had wanted to take the A-10s and F-16s from Eielson. In addition, they were going to pull F-15s out of Elmendorf. This would have left only one squadron of F-15s to protect all of Alaska.
That's dumb.
To only have 1 squadron in AK
who said it was flawed? I doubt that at that level there was a "flawed" decision. It was purposeful. What was the "WHY"?
Somewhere there was a reason for the original decision but now ... we are back to the PORK vs military needs again.
I still bet on the PORK reasoning.