Col. Gail Wojtowicz, the Air Force’s division chief for future concepts and transformation, is leading a three-day war game exercise to test the service’s abilities in the year 2025. (DR, 10/03/05) Wojtowicz told Reuters that 100 researchers and other officials are taking part in the desktop exercise, examining Air Force ability to respond to homeland threats, terrorism, and combat proliferation of nuclear arms and fighting two conventional wars simultaneously. The wargamers get an added wrinkle—tackle these scenarios in a gaunt budget environment. Now, that is realism.
U.S. aircraft, drones, and attack helicopters have launched significant airstrikes in recent days against Islamic State militants in Syria as part of the renewed air campaign against remnants of the group, U.S. officials said.


