June 2011

The US does not quit when national interests are at stake.

Air operations are on the rise as the Air Force disperses throughout Afghanistan to take the fight to

At AFA’s first-ever CyberFutures conference, top officials spoke of the need to prepare for war in cyb

The KC-46A was a long time coming.

Just three years after they arrived, the F-22s at Holloman Air Force Base are moving on.

No US ground troop has been killed in an enemy aircraft attack since the Korean War.

Combatant commanders are waiting in line for the capabilities of remotely piloted aircraft.

Recent profits have masked troubling signs among DOD’s suppliers.

The Air Force, to its lasting regret, got in on the ground floor of the UFO phenomenon.

The next $400 billion; Panetta on deck; Stealth revealed ....

National Security Leadership Named President Obama announced in April his intent to nominate Leon E. Panetta to replace Robert M. Gates as Defense Secretary and Army Gen. David H. Petraeus to take over for Panetta as CIA director. “I cannot...

Panetta’s Prayer “It’s in your hands, friend. I wish you the best. All I can do is pray a hell of a lot.”—CIA Director Leon E. Panetta to Vice Adm. William H. McRaven, just before the latter initiated the SEAL...

Commencement Address Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI June 9, 1962 FULL TEXT VERSION In a famous address in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1962, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara unveiled a controversial nuclear...

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Gin Rummy Not once in his memo does Secretary Rumsfeld mention Afghanistan, al Qaeda, or Osama bin Laden [“Keeper File: Rumsfeld’s ‘Parade of Horribles,’ ” April, p. 71]. This was 2002. Whether deliberately forgetful or incredibly stupid, to talk about...

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Role Models Their peers were probably still asleep when, on a recent Saturday, AFJROTC cadets in Clinton, Md., assembled to hear two members of the Thomas W. Anthony Chapter (Md.) inspire them through stories about their lives and their Air...