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December 15, 1999
The Air Force admits that, during the Kosovo War, it did not have enough tankers and airlifters to support a second conflict, had one started. The Air Force points this out as proof that it needs to keep the C-141s (in Reserve units) and buy more C-17s than are currently planned in order to be ready for the "two-war scenario". But within their demands for more aircraft, the Air Force has included a note that they might not have been quite so short of airlift if they had not been forced to divert many of their new C-17s from duty as strategic airlifters to use as intra-theater airlifters, moving the Army's helicopter brigade and its various support and protection units to Albania. Had the Army units been left in Germany, the Air Force submits, it might have been barely possible to handle a second war, if it had been a fairly small one. --Stephen V Cole
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