January 2005

Broad and deep integration would help USAF get through the budget crisis.

Space Command seeks to instill a “warfighter ethos” and acquire the means to guard the high ground.

The FB-22 is a leading candidate to fulfill USAF’s need for an “interim bomber.”

Unity of command—a long-held principle of war—was an early casualty in Vietnam.

The Enlisted Heritage Hall preserves stories of airmen over the past century.

With fewer blue suits in the medical field, USAF can save money and increase combat power.

Air Force leaders have been jolted by a rise in self-inflicted deaths.

An Air Force plan aims to generate a new breed of upwardly mobile navigators.

Gen. John P. Jumper talks about the Air and Space Expeditionary Force, F/A-22, Total Force, and today’

Harold Watson’s “Whizzers” went hunting for German jets—and came back with several jewels.

He built Bomber Command into a mighty force, but his reputation has suffered.

Resignations, Continued Turmoil; Airpower in Fallujah; Acquisition Reform Goes Too Far?; And More ….

Airman Dies in Iraq MSgt. Steven E. Auchman, of Waterloo, N.Y., was killed in Iraq on Nov. 9. He died from injuries he received when multiple rocket-propelled grenades were fired on his unit’s location in Mosul. Auchman, 37, was a...

Weakness Is Provocative “It seems that that’s a lesson that needs to be relearned from generation to generation—the lesson that weakness can be provocative, that it can entice others into adventures they otherwise would have avoided, that a refusal to...

Lawmakers Expand Reserve Tricare; Employer Tax Credit Down; Gains for Veterans; 2005 Priorities ....