January 2009

The new commander in chief will find at least four serious threats to the deterrent.

At AFA’s Global Warfare Symposium, Air Force leaders chart the course for revival.

In Iraq, violence is down, but airmen see that the demand for air capabilities keeps growing.

There aren’t enough of them. The Air Force is determined to do something about that.

The U-2 and SR-71 were two of the most famous and successful aircraft of all time.

Beware a well-intentioned effort to give irregular warfare a superior place in air-dominance planning.

The F-22 is a pain. The F-35 is a marvel. The tanker program is a mess. So is space. Any questions?

A new wargame tells airmen what it will take to hold the line in the Far East.

Everyone, even Red the Uniform Tailor, has said his piece about how to fix USAF’s blue suit.

The Air Force and NRO have been hacking at this project for nearly 50 years now.

Donley talks fighters; DOD voices skepticism; Continuing nuclear saga. ....

If “secessionist forces [cause] Taiwan’s secession from China, or … possibilities for a peaceful reunification [are] completely exhausted, the state shall employ non-peaceful means.” —China’s 2005 anti-secession law. (Staff map by Zaur Eylanbekov) Beijing could not be more blunt. China...

Airman Dies in Iraq SSgt. Brian P. Hause, 29, of Stoystown, Pa., died Oct. 23 of noncombat-related medical causes while deployed to Joint Base Balad, Iraq, from the 20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron at Shaw AFB, S.C. He was serving as...

Remembering Pearl Harbor “Roosevelt had become President on his public pledge not to go to war, so in order to start a war between the United States and Japan, it had to appear that Japan took the first shot. …...

“Air Organization and the Direction of Aerial Operations” Gen. Jan Smuts London August 17, 1917 FULL TEXT VERSION In summer 1917, London was rocked by German bomber attacks. The World War I British Cabinet appointed a committee—Prime Minister David Lloyd...

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Editorial: Hard Times I take exception to your statement in the editorial, “Hard Times,” in the November issue [p. 2] of Air Force Magazine “that the expense of simply maintaining today’s 1.4-million-strong US force has gotten wildly out of hand”...

Air Force Ball in Los Angeles Brig. Gen. Susan J. Helms received the prestigious Gen. Thomas D. White Space Award at the Los Angeles Air Force Ball, hosted by the Gen. B. A. Schriever Los Angeles Chapter at the Beverly...