Valor: A Place Called the Doumer Bridge
Former X-15 pilot Col. Bob White led the first strike against the most heavily defended target in North Vietnam.
February 1988
Vol. 71, No. 2
The Risks of Austerity
Overshooting the end of the fiscal year by nearly three months, the Administration and Congress finally settled on a budget last December 22. Throughout this extended spectacle, attention was riveted on the federal deficit to the virtual exclusion of all...
Strategic Forces at the Brink of START
As the superpowers explore deep reductions in nuclear weaponry, the US strategic modernization program
Our Blind Spots in Space
The US cannot see what the Soviets have up in critical sectors of deep space. Now that the USSR has sp
The Case for Mobile ICBMs
The Soviets have three times as many warheads as we have silos. They also have a monopoly on mobile mi
Fallacies and Facts About Aerospace
Everybody knows that defense business is lucrative, that fraud and waste are rampant, and that contrac
More Flak in the AirLand Battle
The Air Force thinks a variant of the F-16 can handle close air support. OSD, however, isn't so sure a
The Five-Year Drought
The Pentagon has reduced its long-range spending plans by more than ten percent. This means loss of pe
The Rise of the Deficit
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