May 1982

In assessing the current state of the Air Force from the perspective of my first year as Secretary, I believe that the progress made and future prospects are directly related to our ability to successfully meet two critical challenges. First,...

We are in a dangerous decade. As in the early 1940s, we face a hostile power with imperial ambitions that has built large and modern military forces well beyond those needed to assure the security of the USSR. Our chief...