Air & Space Forces Magazine
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Check out the January/February 2026 issue of Air & Space Forces Magazine.
Instant Thunder and the Roots of Desert Storm
How a rogue planning cell engineered the most decisive air war in modern history. When the exercise “Internal” Look kicked off at a mock command center at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., in July 1990 no one knew quite how...
Military Operations: Airpower and Absolute Resolve
How the Air Force Cleared the Way for Delta Force. The daring raid on Caracas, Venezuela, to snatch and grab Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro may have been characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a law enforcement operation, but...
Strategy & Policy: Telling USAF’s Story is a Critical Mission
Retiring after 40 years of aerospace and defense journalism—31 years with Air & Space Forces Magazine—John Tirpak offers observations and advice on how to tell the Air Force’s continuing story. O ver the past few decades, the Air Force’s cumulative budget...
Beast in the Machine
How Robotics and AI Will Transform Warfare and the Future of Human Conflict. The first wave of the robotic revolution is underway: smart, precision-guided weapons are proliferating into every corner of war. The big cruise missiles and laser-guided smart bombs...
Dynamic Space Operations
To prevail in space, the Space Force must be able to challenge adversaries withmultidimensional dilemmas. Space is now a warfighting domain, with growing threats to and increasing operational demands on U.S. space capabilities. New systems and operational concepts that increase...
Editorial: Deterring Now Costs Less than Winning Later
In a period of seven months, the United States executed two extremely different, yet equally devastating military operations on two sides of the world. In June’s Operation Midnight Thunder, seven U.S. B-2 bombers destroyed most of Iran’s nuclear production capacity...
