We need bigger planes and more of them................
Or was this the DEI route that goes past South Africa ?
I would say the Patriots need to be replenished. We should not need to airlift them from a high risk area. How many have been sent to the Ukraine without being replaced?
C-5M Super Galaxy is much larger than the C-17.
Patriot batteries were designed for the smaller C-141, so there was a lot of other stuff transferred but not named, supposedly including THAAD system.
“We need bigger planes and more of them.”
We had those opportunities, but with “The End of History” there was no reason to maintain a strong and advanced military. The fact that we were, at the same time, plotting to engage Russia in a war in Ukraine didn’t seem to be a contradiction to the ‘geniuses’ running our country.