With an eye on China, Air Force hones its hub-and-spoke approach to basing

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii—Today’s Air Force leaders aren’t axing quite all of the previous administration’s efforts to prepare for a possible fight with China. Service leaders are continuing to implement Agile Combat Employment—among other things, a hub-and-spoke approach to basing—the service’s undersecretary said last week.“We cannot just project force and operate out of our main operating bases,” Matthew Lohmeier told a small