October 2007

USAF is about more—much more—than “traditional” combat.

In Europe, USAFE faced a brutal optempo—and that was before 10 percent of its troops deployed.

The Air Force can’t buy many new large ISR aircraft. It must wring out much more from what it’s alread

The 455th aeromedical evacuation unit links the Afghan battlefield to advanced medical care in the Wes

With the success of Sputnik 1, the Space Age was born, and the Space Race was about to begin.

Up against the elements and old airplanes, air and ground crews somehow manage to hold it all together

The North Dakota Air National Guard wing has moved on to new aircraft, but it won’t soon forget its F-16s.

The United States was well down the list of the world’s military powers, but it had strengths that were not fully apparent.

The Chief of Staff wants to fix the way USAF uses its pilots, starting with those flying the F-22.

The Navy plans to build many more flattops, and they won’t be “Gary Hart carriers.”

In World War II, a handful of American fliers answered Britain’s call for help.

What has been lost with the demise of wipers, oilers, cleaners, and supernumeraries?

Out of Russia’s mothballs; Putin sets a course; Thwarting ASATs ....

Airman Dies in Basic Training A 19-year-old boot camp trainee at Lackland AFB, Tex., died Aug. 7, after apparently contracting a respiratory virus. Amn. Paige Renee Villers of Norton, Ohio, died at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio. A...

Who Needs ISR “The day of the spy-in-the-sky approach to intelligence gathering may be coming to an end, plagued by cost overruns and systems so complex they take too long to perfect and probably, most importantly, are increasingly less useful...

“Air and Space Are Indivisible” Gen. Thomas D. White Statement in Air Force Magazine Arlington, Va. March 1958 FULL TEXT VERSION Are air and space separate military environments? Or are they simply parts of a single “seamless continuum”—the aerospace—in which...

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War Budgets and Sacrifice I just finished reading your article about the war budgets [“Editorial: War Budgets, Then and Now,” August, p. 2]. I am not an economist nor do I have all the know-how when it comes to supporting...