Meet the Leaders in Charge of Building Alaska's F-35 Community | Air & Space Forces Association
“Whoever holds Alaska, will hold the world,” Gen. Billy Mitchell famously told Congress in 1935. Today, with Russia’s military buildup in the region and China’s claims to be an Arctic nation, Mitchell’s remarks are surprisingly prescient. With the beddown of Eielson Air Force Base’s F-35 strike fighters, there is now more fifth-generation combat power in Alaska than anywhere else in the world. That is not by accident.