August 2006

The Air Force should prepare itself for budget combat.

The Air Expeditionary Force may not be broken, but some weak spots need patching.

By changing its worldwide basing, the Air Force is striving to break out of the Cold War straitjacket.

The February Red Flag in Nevada featured Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, British, and Australian forces, with more than 130 aircraft and 2,500 troops taking part.

With technologies like these, USAF will sharpen its fighting edge.

In 1962, the United States began a “secret war” in Laos. The operation wasn’t revealed until 1970, by

The three inventive brothers got things rolling in the 1920s and 1930s. Then they checked out.

The US military space operation in facts and figures.

Candidates for national offices and the Board of Directors.

Compensation Reforms You May Not Like; Pay More for Tricare, They Said; Army and Air Force—Together on

No Rush for Guard Seat on JCS The Defense Department voiced opposition to seating a National Guard general on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It called on Congress to wait for a formal commission studying the idea to issue its...

Bad Force and Its Buddy “To identify an organization truly unwilling to change, we need to look no further than Rumsfeld’s beloved Air Force. Far from driving ‘transformation’ as he claims, the Defense Secretary has continued to buy hyper-expensive, virtually...

“Statement on Stealth Technology” Secretary of Defense Harold Brown DOD News Conference, Washington, D.C. Aug. 22, 1980 FULL TEXT VERSION For some time, there had been whispers—and a few press leaks—about a strange breed of aircraft, one “invisible” to radar....

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Morality of Airpower In regard to the Robert S. Dudney editorial “Of Airpower and Morality,” [June, p. 2], I agree with everything that he says. I also agree that, due to space limitations, he cannot properly [deal with all of]...