Two pieces published within eight days of each other in late July 2026 stake out what looks, at first glance, like the same argument from opposite sides. David Deptula’s Forbes essay, “Stop Judging Airpower Against Missions It Was Never Assigned,” is a broadside against a genre of commentary he considers lazy: the recurring claim that … Continue reading The Air Littoral Is a Maritime Problem Too: What the Kill Web Fleet Can Teach the Airpower Debate