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Troy Meink: “The US essentially dismantled the fourth largest army in the…”

Featuring: Troy Meink, Secretary of the Air Force | National

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The State of the DAF | 2025 Air, Space & Cyber Conference

Published | Video Starts at 10:58

I think we talk about rattling our cage with some of the challenges we've had to us. I think this rattled a lot of people's cage, particularly China and others. They watched what we did. They watched how The US essentially dismantled the fourth largest army in the world [during Desert Storm] with very light casualties. compared to the size of the force that we took on. And they have been focused on this since then. They have been razor focused on this since then. (10:58–11:10)

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Asserts that the US dismantled the fourth largest army in the world during Desert Storm with minimal casualties.

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