October 2011

Airpower can help keep the peace in Iraq, without a massive US footprint.

SSgt. Robert Gutierrez stuck with the mission despite taking a bullet, his lung collapsing, busted ear

The anti-access, area-denial threat, vast distances in the western Pacific, and unrelenting budget pre

A consortium at Hungary’s Papa Air Base greatly expands airlift capability for a group of European all

Airmen performing the personnel recovery mission are holding up under enormous strain. Their equipment

In remote, landlocked Afghanistan, airpower linked up with special operators and the Northern Alliance

Twenty-five years ago, not everybody was in favor of reorganizing the Department of Defense.

The US Strategic Bombing Survey chronicled a cascading, cata­clysmic failure throughout the German eco

In 1933, T. R. Milton enlisted as an Army private. Ten years later, the future four-star general was l

China surpasses—doubles—Russia’s military spending; Taiwan in the crosshairs; Whither stealth? ....

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Raptor Rescue Air Combat Command temporarily lifted its F-22 fleetwide grounding to let the 28 aircraft based at JB Langley-Eustis, Va., escape Hurricane Irene, which hit the East Coast in late August. Grounded due to a malfunction with the aircraft’s...

Air Guard Worries “I’m very concerned that, just because of the age of our fleet, some people might discard our Air Guard as out-of-date and incapable of being recapitalized. I’m not willing to accept that. But I know intuitively that...

“Roles and Missions” Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, USAF Address to the Heritage Foundation Washington, DC October 17, 1994 FULL TEXT VERSION In late 1994, Gen. Merrill A. McPeak lobbed a roles-and-missions bomb into the nation’s defense community. The soon-to-retire USAF...

Get On With It “The False Death of Airpower” strikes a blow for sanity in the continuing national saga of what to do with airpower, indeed with the US Air Force [“Editorial,” August, p. 4]. An underappreciated component of airpower...

Iron Gate Salutes 50 Years In New York City in July, the Iron Gate Chapter celebrated its golden anniversary with a salute to the Air Force—and a visit from the Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Norton A. Schwartz. Chapter...