This Air Force general is rallying his troops for war with China

A provocative new memo from a four-star Air Force general is sounding an alarm on China — and raising eyebrows among rank-and-file airmen.

Gen. Mike Minihan, who as head of Air Mobility Command oversees the U.S. Air Force’s cargo and tanker fleet, urged airmen to be “unrepentantly lethal” in preparation for potential war with China that may be two years away.

Dated Feb. 1 and leaked on social media on Jan. 26, it’s the first of eight monthly missives to prepare the mobility force for the so-called “peer conflict” with China...