Read the day's top news on the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, Department of Defense, and national security issues.
March 28, 2024 | By
John A. Tirpak
Aircraft readiness will suffer if Congress does not approve some $1.5 billion worth of spare parts the Air Force requested in its annual Unfunded Priorities List, sent to Capitol Hill last week, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said.
March 28, 2024 | By
Unshin Lee Harpley
INDOPACOM head Navy Adm. John C. Aquilino said China is soon to have world's largest Air Force as well as Navy at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on March 21.
March 28, 2024 | By
Greg Hadley
Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. may have moved on from Air Force Chief of Staff to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, but he is keeping an eye on the Air Force’s effort to “re-optimize for great power competition”—and is pleased by what he sees. At a ...
March 28, 2024 | By
David Roza
The Space Force wants to starting bringing in space professionals from Air Force Reserve Command this summer, starting with Reservists in full-time status who volunteer for full-time duty.
March 28, 2024 | By
Greg Hadley
The People’s Republic of China's rapid military advances in space mean the People's Liberation Army no longer merely threatens American assets in orbit, but now has the space-based sensing and targeting capabilities to better enable its joint forces to threat the U.S. on Earth, Space ...
March 28, 2024
WORLD: New CMSAF, David Flosi; Robert Gaylor Dies, 5th CMSAF; Appollo Astronaut Tom Stafford Dies.
March 28, 2024
WORLD: Re-optimizing the Forces: Big Changes Coming; the Future of Deployments; Warrant Officers.
March 28, 2024
WORLD: Budget: Air Force Gets More; Space Force Gets Cut; Shrinking Aircraft Inventory.
March 28, 2024
Capt. Thomas G. Lanphier Jr. claimed to have shot down Yamamoto’s plane, killing him in the process, but the evidence indicates it was not Lanphier, but his wingman, Rex Barber, who deserved the credit.
March 28, 2024 | By
Howard Mansfield
Major Stewart was promoted to Group Operations Officer and sent down the road 9 miles to the 453rd Bomb Group. When Airmen were told they were getting a movie star.
March 28, 2024 | By
John A. Tirpak
William LaPlante said there’s been “significant improvement” in the program over the last decade, and program leaders can now “focus on the future of the F-35, instead of the past.”
March 28, 2024
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March 28, 2024 | By
Patrick Reardon
The event, titled “A Celebration of Character & Courage,” was the long-awaited climax to AFA’s year-long commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of combat operations in Vietnam and the return of American POWs in 1973.
March 28, 2024
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March 28, 2024
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March 28, 2024 | By
Tobias Naegele
Three decades of underfunding and deferred modernization have left the Air Force ill-equipped for peer conflict, and there’s only one way to fix that: Spend big.
March 28, 2024
Unlike the race to the Moon between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1960s, this new space race involves dozens of countries, dynamic geopolitical tensions, and technical capabilities associated with sustained presence.
March 28, 2024 | By
John A. Tirpak
It’s possible two distinct solutions could emerge from this stage, one high end, the other more basic.
March 28, 2024 | By
Chris Gordon
The CAOC is the Air Force nerve center in the Middle East, responsible for planning and executing air operations across the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of operations.