February 2014

The nation needs to rein in personnel costs, but it must first keep its promises.

The F-22 is the air dominance cream of the crop. USAF intends to keep it that way.

USAF’s rescue airmen helped fight off a deadly ambush and pull combatants from a mountain firefight in

Meet the new normal. It will probably include tiered readiness, abandoned missions, grounded squadrons

In November, three of the four surviving Doolittle Raiders raised their goblets, one last time, to hon

The US can’t pay its troops enough for their service, but it also can’t afford continually rising comp

A B-2 bomber mission to the Korean Peninsula was highlighted by USAF’s burgeoning social media effort.

The B-24 crew broke all records for human endurance without water, food, or shelter—but died before es

Many fail to appreciate the threats lurking in the cyber realm.

Airpower has eclipsed land power as the primary means of destroying enemy forces.

The mission began in World War I and has been employed with varying success but increasing importance.

Complexity costs for the F-35; JSF is the first real joint aircraft; 2030 Air Dominance fighter?; That

Four Airmen Dead in Pave Hawk Crash Four airmen assigned to the 56th Rescue Squadron at RAF Lakenheath, UK, were killed when their HH-60G Pave Hawk crashed on the Norfolk coast of eastern England Jan. 7, according to a base...

Slip-Sliding Away “I’m very concerned about eroding technological superiority and where we’re headed. We’re cutting our budget substantially while some of the people we worry about are going in the opposite direction. We’ve had 20 years since the end of...

Feeder Force and the Candy Bomber I read your article with great interest [“The Feeder Force,” January, p. 67]. In 1941 I was not in college but working. Graduated from high school in 1939. Mr. Robert Hinckley was head of...

Honors at the LA Ball Gen. William L. Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command, received top honors during the Air Force Ball sponsored by the Gen. B. A. Schriever Los Angeles Chapter in California in November. Air Force Association...