China’s spy flights tested Biden and the Defense Dept. They both failed

I am proud to be an airman and to have served in the US Air Force as an F-22 pilot. This is the very same jet that was used to shoot down the Chinese surveillance balloon.

President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address to Congress: Unfortunately, China tested the president’s claims last week and he failed.

Biden’s decision to allow enemy aircraft to fly over U.S. sovereign airspace was the Air Force’s biggest strategic blunder in its more than 100-year history. Arguably, this was not a failure of aviator flight, technology, tactics, or capabilities. It was a failure of political will that exposed the weakness of Biden and his administration.

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Since 1916, the United States has consistently used air power to achieve military objectives. During World War I, the U.S. Army recognized the great strategic interest in the air domain, and Congress allocated millions of dollars to figure out how to control this new territory.

Legends such as Benjamin D. Foulois and Billy Mitchell took nascent technology and transformed it into the most significant military advances of the 20th century. In addition to meeting military objectives, air power has also been used for decades to meet strategic objectives.

By commanding the air domain, we and our allies can provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, transport needed resources, provide aerial cover for ground forces, undermine enemy forces, and provide force projection capabilities. has an integrated mission set that increases And most importantly for this ex-F-22 pilot, it performs missions against enemy aircraft known in military parlance as offensive or defensive anti-aircraft operations.

Airpower was the go-to choice for the president of the United States to deter enemies and defend freedom. President Ronald Reagan has authorized the Air Force, Navy and Marines to carry out airstrikes on Libya’s vital command and control centers in response to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s terrorist attack in Berlin.

President George HW Bush first used the then-classified F-117 stealth aircraft when he authorized the removal of former dictator Manuel Noriega in the 1989 Panama raid.

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President Barack Obama deployed me and other F-22 pilots to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Offensive and defensive anti-aircraft operations allowed the free world to maintain peace and protect American interests. Nowhere is this more important than our homeland, the sovereign frontier we fought so desperately for.

Defensive counter-air is based on the premise that threats are neutralized before the enemy can accomplish its mission. Allowing Chinese surveillance flights into our airspace completely undermines our country’s strategic defenses. It’s simple — China tested Biden and the Pentagon. Response was unsuccessful.

What is even more troubling is that although the Biden administration knew of this looming threat days before the surveillance balloon made front page headlines, his administration either withdrew it or did not acknowledge the risks it poses to Congress and the public. It’s a fact that I didn’t make a move to let you know. We could have easily equipped the weapon system. Biden must tell Congress and the American people why he didn’t defend his sovereign airspace.

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This inaction not only poses a grave threat to the motherland, but most importantly, it will affect the CCP’s claim that Biden, and thus our country, is nothing more than a paper tiger. We are letting the world know that our borders, whether by air, land or cyberspace, are fully open and we will not take any action to protect ourselves.

For our country, Biden must reassert America’s power on the world stage. We must find the political will to secure all the borders of

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