June 2005

"Traditional" conflict may not be as obsolete as the Pentagon claims.

The services have slashed the fighter’s weight and changed its milestones to get the program back on t

Thirty years on, USAF’s A-10 units are going strong, moving out with new weapons, targeting pods, avionics, and training.

For USAF, the Joint Unmanned Combat Air System could prove to be a large, loitering attack craft.

The Pentagon chief didn’t ask the services for advice; he set his own agenda for the big defense revie

Over the Red River delta, Leo Thorsness “took on most of North Vietnam all by himself.”

For years, China pushed. Japan has finally pushed back. For the US, the consequences are large.

Little by little, the effort to find and identify Vietnam War dead and missing is yielding results.

The Soviet Union wanted a nuclear weapon that could stage a “backdoor” strike on US soil.

The list of Kelly Johnson designs is a roll call of legendary aircraft.

F/A-22 Passes Major Hurdle; Who Will Control UAVs?; In Search of Chips ....

Fonda Over Yonda “The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda’s daughter, … sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal, …the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine,” [but] “I felt I had to do anything...

Bush Picks Pace For Chairman President Bush on April 22 nominated Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pace, currently the vice chairman, would succeed Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers,...

More on Reserve Tricare; Compensation for Traumatic Injury; Recruit Incentives for Guard and Reserve .

“The Air Force and US National Security: Global Reach-Global Power” Department of the Air Force A White Paper Washington, D.C. June 1990 FULL TEXT VERSION The 1980s were a time of strategic ferment, caused by the deflation of Soviet power....