Editor’s Note: This article is written by an Air Force officer using a pseudonym. Regular readers of War on the Rocks know that we authorize this in the rarest of cases. In this case, our editor-in-chief authorized this because the author’s career — even beyond the author’s time in the Air Force — would be at serious risk even though this article does not involve any violations of regulation or law as far as we have been able to discern. How does an aspiring officer attain the rank of general? Some think it is a combination of hard work, luck, … Continue reading A Call for Senior Officer Reform in the Air Force: An Insider’s Perspective