January 2006

The upshot is that the Air Force of future years will be smaller and less capable than it otherwise wo

Fifteen years ago this month, the Gulf War upset prevailing assumptions about airpower and its relatio

At AFA’s Los Angeles symposium, USAF leaders wondered: What happens if our space capabilities are ever

Aircraft targeting pods—Litening, Sniper, LANTIRN—are turning the fighter force into an all-seeing eye

F-22 operations at Langley mark a transition away from the F-15 and toward a new heavyweight champ.

Wherein expeditionary air bases are considered maneuver elements in their own right.

New officers leave USAF’s Air and Space Basic Course as dedicated airpower advocates.

USAF's air logistics centers are now faster, more efficient providers of combat power.

The top airman in Southwest Asia discusses air operations over Iraq and Afghanistan.

They approached the jet engine problem in different ways, but they both solved it.

Keeping a Full-Service USAF; Scoping Out the Mobility Requirement; The Japan Card ....

Wynne Is New SECAF Michael W. Wynne was sworn in as Secretary of the Air Force on Nov. 3 at an Air Force Academy ceremony attended by 4,200 cadets. He had been confirmed by the Senate on Oct. 28. Wynne...

Long May He Wave “The ramparts of Washington are littered with the bleached bones of people who said Donald Rumsfeld was not going to survive.”—Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita about tenure of the Secretary of Defense, Washington Post Magazine, Nov....

VA Backs Off Review; The “Duke” No One Knew; VSOs Up in Arms; Last Minute Budget Wrangling ....

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The Khobar Towers Issue Thank you for your editorial in the November 2005 issue [“The Shadow of Khobar Towers,” p. 2]. Generals Fogleman and Schwalier are and will always remain examples of extraordinary military leadership. They may not remember me,...