{"id":20032,"date":"2025-10-17T18:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20032"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:28:02","slug":"the-doom-loop-is-facing-the-air-force-can-it-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20032","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Doom Loop&#8217; is facing the Air Force &#8211; Can it survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. may not have enough pilots to win a long war against a peer competitor. It takes a long time to train pilots, and they don&#8217;t stick around because flying commercially pays more. The pilots we do have don&#8217;t get enough flying hours. The U.S. Air Force has similarities to Japan and Germany&#8217;s air forces at the beginning in WWII. Germany and Japan did not have enough pilots or a robust enough pilot pipeline to maintain skilled pilots throughout the war.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The &#039;Doom Loop&#039; is facing the Air Force - Can it survive?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Tl-8VOAxXg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. may not have enough pilots to win a long war against a peer competitor. It takes a long time to train pilots, and they don&#8217;t stick around because flying commercially pays more. The pilots we do have don&#8217;t get enough flying hours. The U.S. Air Force has similarities to Japan and Germany&#8217;s air forces at the beginning in WWII. Germany and Japan did not have enough pilots or a robust enough pilot pipeline to maintain skilled pilots throughout the war. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Tl-8VOAxXg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[253,1004,259,1282],"class_list":["post-20032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20033,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20032\/revisions\/20033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}