Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the start of Operation Desert Storm, the US-led coalition war to reverse Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and prevent the seizure of other neighboring Persian Gulf States. United Nations resolutions and a US ultimatum demanded...
Operation Desert Storm began on Jan. 17, 1991, initiating 25 years of continuous combat operations for the United States Air Force. Some 2,000 US aircraft participated in the operation, which lasted just 42 days. During Desert Storm, space systems provided...
In the first 24 hours of Desert Storm, coalition aircraft attacked more than 150 separate and distinct targets across Iraq—more than the total number of targets hit by the Eighth Air Force in 1942 and 1943, said the principal attack...
When Desert Storm began in January 1991, it was the first time in 19 years the US Air Force had been involved in a major air combat campaign. Yet today’s airmen “are further removed from Desert Storm than we were...
Twenty-five years ago this Sunday, Capt. Paul Johnson of the 353rd Fighter Squadron, Myrtle Beach AB, S.C., was on search and rescue duty when he was tasked with finding a Navy F-14 crew that had been shot down deep in...
The US has forgotten some of the lessons learned during Desert Storm, warned the dean of AFA’s Mitchell Institute. “It would behoove us to revisit some of the tenets that allowed us to be so successful and apply them today,”...
The Air Force’s biggest challenge in the fight against ISIS is the ability to find good targets and avoid civilian casualties, but the coalition has evolved its intelligence processes to better ensure civilians are safe in the fight, Air Force...
Retiring Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly officially handed the reins of the US Southern Command to Navy Adm. Kurt Tidd during a ceremony Thursday. Kelly, who has served as the head of SOUTHCOM since November 2012, previously served as the...
One of the two Afghan airmen who went missing from Moody AFB, Ga., last month has been located in Virginia and is seeking political asylum, reported WSB-TV 2. The station did not say which airman was located. When reached by...
The Air Force on Jan. 13 awarded two contracts for shared public-private development of prototype rocket engines to replace the Russian-made RD-180 engine. Orbital ATK was awarded $46.9 million toward development and testing of its Common Booster Segment main stage,...