Air Force Global Strike Command needs to beef up its planning and advocacy for its future intercontinental ballistic missile and long-range bomber if it wants to successfully modernize its enterprise in an era of financial and technological challenges, the nonprofit research organization RAND Corp. said ...
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Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett speaks during her ceremonial swearing in as the 25th secretary of the Air Force at the US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 2, 2019. Air Force photo by Wayne Clark. Newly...
Time to Revisit Roles and Missions.
Designing a new way of war to restore America’s military competitiveness.
Lawmakers are trying to compromise on a fiscal 2020 defense policy bill as a new, slimmed-down version offers a fallback option. Architect of the Capitol photo via Twitter. A slimmed-down version of the fiscal 2020 defense policy bill recently introduced...
DOD officials on Oct. 30 provided more information about the Oct. 26 raid that led to the death of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, including this photo of the compound before the raid. DOD photo. The top US...
An aircrew from the 165th Airlift Squadron flies over the skies of Normandy, France, aboard a Kentucky Air National Guard C-130 on June 4, 2019. Air National Guard photo by Phil Speck. Air Mobility Command is expanding how it trains...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley addresses reporters at an Oct. 28, 2019, press conference at the Pentagon. DVIDS screenshot. US aircraft fired a heavy onslaught of ordnance from the air, including multiple AGM-158B Joint...
President Donald Trump is joined by Vice President Mike Pence, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, left; Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, right, Oct. 26, 2019, at the White House,...
