December 2003

If you think you’ve seen this movie before, you are right.

With four powered flights totaling 98 seconds 100 years ago, the Wright brothers changed the world.

A chronology of aerospace power since 1903.

The emphasis is shifting to places like Romania, Sao Tome, and Camp Bondsteel.

The Air Force has an urgent need for hypersonic, long-range, transatmospheric vehicles.

Air Force planners say the Hellfire-equipped Predator UAV is only the beginning.

For Air Force technologists, “Eureka!” moments are few. Progress depends on small, steady gains.

In the beginning, they were few and rare. But that was in the beginning.

The Defense Budget Gap; “Discriminate Use of Force”; Europe’s Forces; The Army in Smaller Pieces ....

Tanker Compromise Reached The Air Force announced Nov. 6 that the Administration had reached an agreement with Congress over the service’s plan to acquire new KC-767 refueling tankers. The deal would enable USAF to lease 20 and buy 80 of...

Everybody Else Has One “Does State Department Need its Own Air Force?”—Headline on Robert Novak column, Chicago Sun –Times, Sept. 25. Just Ask the Macro-Hearted “The United Nations may seem useless to the self-satisfied, narrow-minded, and micro-hearted minority, but to...

Concurrent Receipt Winners and Losers; Divvying up $22.1 Billion; Tax Bill Moves ....

“Global War on Terrorism” Donald H. Rumsfeld Memo to Senior DOD Officials, Washington, D.C. October 16, 2003 FULL TEXT VERSION Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush, found himself in a major controversy after one of...

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