No one wants to deny ground or naval forces the power to see threats or targets. The real goal is to g
Senior leaders say demands of war have finally caught up with the service.
Is the fighter force now too small to handle two wars at the same time?
The critical importance of this German base has sparked a building and flying boom.
Big plans to combine Navy and Marine Corps air in a single operational force have come apart.
The maneuver space is the electromagnetic spectrum, where forces range globally at the speed of light.
In South Vietnam, airpower was subordinated to a ground strategy—and the ground strategy didn’t work.
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The Leuna Werke, Germany’s key synthetic fuel plant, was a diabolical target for US airmen sent to bom
In the South Atlantic and the Middle East, two short air wars taught some lasting lessons.
A tale of purloined MiG fighters, secret desert airfields, and double-wide trailers ...
The 20/$20 Billion Get Well Plan; Murtha’s Concerns; The Mobility Jumble ....
Afghan Crash Kills Airman Air Force TSgt. Scott E. Duffman, of Albuquerque, N.M., perished Feb. 18 while on duty in Afghanistan. Duffman, assigned to the 24th Special Tactics Squadron at Pope AFB, N.C., died in the crash of a CH-47...
Dawn Patrol “Aircraft designers have mimicked many of nature’s flight ‘inventions,’ usually inadvertently. Now it seems likely that Microraptor invented the biplane 125 million years before the Wright 1903 Flyer.”—Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, on fossil evidence that a...
Stacked Decks, Poisoned Water; Equalizing Education Benefits; Expanding CR ....
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Vladimir Putin President, Russian Federation Conference on Security Policy Munich, Germany Feb. 10, 2007 FULL TEXT VERSION The audience was warned; Vladimir Putin had said he would “avoid excessive politeness.” Still, many were startled when the Russian President loosed an...
Ghost Dance My compliments on your excellent editorial, “Ghost Dance at the Apocalypse,” February 2007 [p. 2], which objectively addressed the Kissinger/Schultz/Perry/Nunn call for US leadership in creating a “world free of nuclear weapons.” Ultimately, their proposal rests on the...