Bamboo Eagle: ‘Upping our game’ for Great Power Competition
U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Jesse Friedel, U.S. Air Force Warfare Center deputy commander and BE Commander Air Force forces/Combined/Joint Forces Air Component Commander, left, leads the first Bamboo Eagle 24-3 AFFOR Commander’s Update Brief with his AFFOR staff and air operations center staff at the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, July 31, 2024. Exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3 executed live-fly operations in the eastern Pacific and a simultaneous 24-hour live, virtual, and constructive rolling scenario, tackling issues involving distributed command and control, communications degradation, logistics and sustainment challenges, and tyranny of distance. (Papers on table were blurred for security purposes; photo cropped to focus on subjects.) (U.S. Air Force photo by Deb Henley)