Data on the air sorties in Southwest Asia are available once again and will appear periodically in the Data Points section of the airforce-magazine.com home page. The most recent Data Points entry, Airpower on the Rise, includes the air sorties data for all of 2010.
The defense intelligence community has tried three times in the past decade to build a “common intelligence picture”—a single data stream providing the information that commanders need to make decisions about the battlefield. The first two attempts failed. But officials say things are different today.