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The Air Force is ready to provide a range of capabilities for military action in Iraq, if asked, service Secretary Deborah Lee James told defense writers on Wednesday. The US military is “always planning” for war contingencies and “planning is...

The United States is falling behind potential adversaries, such as Russia and China, in modernizing its nuclear deterrent, and the bills for that modernization are coming due at the worst possible time, said Maj. Gen. Garrett Harencak, strategic deterrence chief...

US leaders took a “holiday” from educating the public about the continued stabilizing value of the nuclear deterrent after the Cold War, said Maj. Gen. Garrett Harencak, nuclear deterrent chief on the Air Staff. “The world in a lot of...

As Sunni insurgents of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant rampage through northern Iraq and threaten Baghdad, the United States is considering a range of military options to assist the Iraqi government. However, there’s been no decision yet...

Despite tensions with Russia over its actions in Ukraine, the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are not considering pooling their resources for a fighter consortium similar to the multinational Heavy Airlift Wing that operates at Papa AB, Hungary,...

This week, US airmen are in Senegal participating in an African Partnership Flight exchange with airmen from eight African partner air forces as part of continuing Air Force efforts to strengthen ties with them. In addition to the Senegalese, airmen...

In order to preserve the team effort between government and industry on the F-35 strike fighter program, the Pentagon is doing all it can to keep the project appropriately profitable, said defense acquisition chief Frank Kendall. Although the Pentagon is...

The Pentagon is more than a year into an analysis of how it will maintain air dominance in the mid 21st century, said Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall. He told reporters on June 12 he put DARPA to work on...