March 2008

Why, on an issue of supreme importance to the Air Force, does the Pentagon find itself unable to agree

USAF has abandoned the term "Future Total Force." The transition can?t be put off any longer.

Over the next six years, Cannon will acquire nine squadrons of special operations forces and aircraft.

Live munitions dropped in the desert made an awesome demonstration.

More than 6,000 airmen will be doing the work of soldiers and marines for quite a while to come.

Those who wear Air Force blue are virtually shut out of the top warfighting posts.

Who’s who in the Bush Administration Pentagon.

The Reagan Pentagon wanted to plan for it. Then, all hell broke loose.

In the winter of 1934, FDR canceled the contracts with the airlines and told the Air Corps to deliver

Through the centuries, the enlisted man has been known by the chevrons he wears.

AFA’s 2007 National Teacher of the Year brought the world of aerospace to students in Kansas.

The Raptor chronicles; F-22 questions; The F-15 mystery; Bomber prep ....

In its 1999 “Bomber Roadmap,” the Air Force famously declared that it had no need for a new long-range strike aircraft until 2037. It soon wavered but did not change course by much. Then, early in 2006, the Pentagon’s Quadrennial...

CSAR-X Bids Are In Again … Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Sikorsky on Jan. 7 turned in their updated proposals for the CSAR-X combat search and rescue helicopter, giving the Air Force the chance yet again to decide on a winner...

Technology Is So Yesterday “The US has no conventional military enemies now. Neither Russia nor China nor anyone else is building vast arsenals of advanced weaponry. The enemies the US actually fights are guerillas and insurgents. So why spend huge...

“Battle Orders, No. 1” Col. William Mitchell First Army Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces Ligny-en-Barrois, France Sept. 11, 1918 FULL TEXT VERSION On the afternoon of Sept. 11, 1918, Col. William Mitchell was putting the finishing touches on his plan for...

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More on AFSO 21 I enjoyed Adam Hebert’s “Issue Brief” on AFSO 21 in the January 2008 edition of Air Force Magazine [p. 20]. When addressing the difficulty in clearly explaining AFSO 21, his following comment particularly caught my attention:...

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“Thrills and Spills” When the Washington Capitals hockey team played the Philadelphia Flyers in Washington, D.C., in January, several members of the Gen. Charles A. Gabriel Chapter (Va.) were in the stands. They were volunteer escorts for Wounded Warriors—injured US...