Why Do We Still Have an Air Force?

dvande/ShutterstockThe drone is one reason the US no longer needs and Air Force.
The American heterodox economist James K. Galbraith asks a very good question near the end of his book The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth, which was published last year and details the history of the US economy from the New Deal to the crash of 2008. The question: "Why exactly does the United States need an air force?" This is one of those questions that at first thought