Lt. Gen. Charles F. Wald
Wald has the usual “right stuff” credentials. He did a tour in Vietnam, flying as a forward air controller out of Da Nang directing air strikes, then as an F-15 and F-16 pilot through a number of commands. But his real skill lies in the formerly unglamorous role of running day-to-day operations, or “ops,” the complex minuet of airplanes over the battlefield that is increasingly the key to victory in the modern age of air war....