October 1998

The military retirement system is no longer the incentive it used to be for people to stay in service.

The threat of ballistic missile attack is growing much faster than had been anticipated by US intellig

The largest NATO exercise ever held in the Baltic region relied on elements of the Michigan and Maryland Air National Guard for critical air support.

The Joint Strike Fighter is moving from concept studies and designs toward real hardware.

So far, "lockout" problems have never stopped an operation to which the US was seriously committed.

Fifty years later, the Task Force Chief of Staff reflects on Operation Vittles.

Who’s who and what’s where in the Russian armed forces.

Too many Air Force people are deciding life might be better out of the service.

Psychological warfare, as conducted by ANG’s Commando Solo unit, means taking control of the airwaves.

In many languages and various forms—jacket patches, cards, letters—they were official IOUs to those wh

F-22 Flies Cross-Country On Aug. 26, Raptor 4002, the second F-22 fighter, flew nonstop from Dobbins ARB, Ga., to Edwards AFB, Calif., where it joined the first F-22-Raptor 4001-for flight testing. Arrival of 4002 at Edwards represents the USAF fighter...

Dark Days “The situation is worse than in 1917 [year of the Bolshevik seizure of power during World War I]. … The situation in Russia is catastrophic.”–Alexander Lebed, ex-general and presidential aspirant, in a Sept. 2, 1998, Moscow press conference...

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