March 2006

The question is: What forces will be available to support this broad national defense strategy?

A new Pentagon study paints a rosy picture but glosses over lots of worrisome factors.

The Army is going through a turbulent period of change, but the Air Force also feels the effect.

Badly burned when an explosion set his cockpit afire, Bill Jones refused to quit the mission.

Making space launch faster, easier, and cheaper sounds simple. It’s not.

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For US pilots, Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto was a “high-value” target but also a fleeting one.

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Patrick A. Welsh is the Aerospace Education Foundation’s National Teacher of the Year.

The personality that built an aviation empire also contributed greatly to its downfall.

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C-17 Line Imperiled The Pentagon requested $389.6 million in its 2007 budget plan to end production of the C-17 advanced airlifter. Unless Congress intervenes, the line will shut down in 2007. The move would signal the closure of Boeing’s Long...

Cut Active Force First “Should the American people calculate the threat to their security is better served by reducing military manpower as a cost-savings measure, then it seems obvious that the most expensive forces (the active component) should be sacrificed...

Battle Over Tricare; What The Military Coalition Wants; Lower Taxes ....

“Army-Navy Merger” President Harry S. Truman Message to Congress Washington, D.C. Dec. 19, 1945 FULL TEXT VERSION For most of 1945, President Harry S. Truman listened as Army and Navy officers debated whether and how the US armed services should...

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Battle Damage From the QDR Thank you for [the] excellent summary of the QDR battle taking place in Washington [“Editorial: Battle Damage From the QDR,” January, p. 2]. I am continually amazed that the Air Force must keep justifying its...