AFA Warfare Symposium

ACE Gets Real  How USAF is evolving Agile Combat Employment informed by insights from Ukraine and Israel.  By David Roza  As the head of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Africa and NATO Allied Air Command, Gen. James B. Hecker...

WORLD: Golden Dome

April 4, 2025
Space and Missile Defense Leaders Ponder Golden Dome By Unshin Lee Harpley Within a week of his inauguration, President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to outline a comprehensive air and missile defense strategy with a focus on advanced space-based interceptors....

WORLD: Munitions

April 4, 2025
Sustained Munitions Production and Lower-Cost Designs By John A. Tirpak Munitions have long been a bill-payer in the Air Force budget—staples of warfare that, in peacetime, can be neglected or shortchanged to pay for more pressing needs—but after more than...

WORLD: Space

April 4, 2025
Space Superiority Takes Center Stage By Greg Hadley Looking into the future in 1957, then-Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever predicted that “in the long haul, our safety as a nation may depend upon our achieving ‘space superiority.’”     Now,...

WORLD: Airpower

April 4, 2025
Allvin Makes the Case for More Airpower  It’s all about ‘more options for the President,’ CSAF says. By Chris Gordon Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin dialed up the intensity of his calls for “more Air Force” in...
The Trump administration arrived in Washington promising to restore America’s military, reinvigorate deterrence, and bring back its warrior ethos. These are not things that can change overnight, but there is evidence of progress. Topics that were gingerly avoided six months...

Letters

April 4, 2025
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WORLD: Combat Air Forces

April 4, 2025
The F-47: Next Generation Air Dominance  Boeing Wins Contest to Build the Next Manned Fighter. By Chris Gordon and John A. Tirpak  When President Donald Trump announced March 21 that Boeing would build the Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter, he unleashed a...