February 2006

Vol. 89, No. 2

Huey Goes Long

At USAF’s 23rd Flying Training Squadron, chopper pilots will train on the new Huey II for another 20 years.

Aerospace World

Raptor Declared Operational … The F-22A Raptor was officially declared operational on Dec. 15, meeting a target set years ago. Gen. Ronald E. Keys, head of Air Combat Command, certified that he has enough aircraft, maintenance crews, spares, and pilots...

Verbatim

Rumsfeld’s Operational Focus “I think if I had to pull out one lesson that we’ve learned over the past four or five years, it would be that in the 21st century we’re going to have to stop thinking about things,...

Schlesinger’s Limited Nuclear Options

“Strategic Forces” James R. Schlesinger Annual Defense Department Report Washington, D.C. March 4, 1974 FULL TEXT VERSION A massive Soviet ICBM buildup had fatally undercut the nuclear policy of “assured destruction,” and Washington needed options “other than suicide or surrender.”...

Letters

Perspectives on Khobar Towers Editor in Chief Robert Dudney says in his November editorial [“The Shadow of Khobar Towers,” p. 2] that the Clinton Administration “appeased” Iran after the Khobar Towers bombing. But doing nothing is not appeasement. By definition,...