The Air Force — our most technology-dependent military service — is struggling to deal with the conflicting demands of what former Defense Secretary Robert Gates derided as “next war-itis” and the Obama spending cuts.

The choices it’s trying to make may well be unmakeable because of that conflict, as the new Air Force strategic forecast, announced last week, makes pretty clear.

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