April 2010

The threshold for commitment of forces is lower than it used to be. Now it looks like it will go lower

There will be no margin for error, said senior Air Force leaders at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium.

At AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, airmen describe incessant requests for what USAF does.

The Chinese military is pushing hard into cyber warfare, anti-access weapons, and other means to blunt

USAF’s cyberwar-fighting 24th Air Force is up against an anonymous and hard-striking set of foes.

Fifty years ago, a Soviet missile shot down Francis Gary Powers and his exotic spyplane.

The ABL did everything it was supposed to do. Now, the Pentagon wants to call it quits.

“Nobody’s ever flown a modern jet transport for 80 years.”

Art Cormier, Neil Black, and Bill Robinson showed excellence in the POW camps around Hanoi.

The American F-86 Sabres stopped the MiG-15s—and their Russian pilots—at the Yalu.

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The crew of the B-29 Double Trouble had some odd moments on a flight fraught with dangers.

Bad news for the beam; Let airmen be airmen; Reshaping “the bathtub” ....

In the riotous 1933 film “Duck Soup,” comedian Leonard Marx—better known as “Chico”—dumbfounded actress Margaret Dumont with this penetrating question: “Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?” The same could be asked about the Air Force budget. Take,...

Cyber Unit Starts Operations Twenty-fourth Air Force, USAF’s new cyber operations arm, on Jan. 22 was cleared to commence initial operations by Gen. C. Robert Kehler, head of Air Force Space Command. AFSPC oversees the new numbered air force, which...

A Place for Compliance “There are disciplines, like nuclear business, where there is only one way to do it, and it’s the Air Force way. That’s not to suggest we want to stifle imagination; far from it. But the reality...

“The Carter Doctrine” President James E. Carter Jr. Address at Joint Session of Congress The Capitol, Washington, DC January 23, 1980 FULL TEXT VERSION In late 1979, the US was shaken by Iran’s seizure of American hostages and the Soviet...

The Health Care Debate I believe you overlooked a critical fact in your February editorial on the Obama health care reform plan and its impact on defense spending [“ObamaCare Vs. Defense,” February, p. 2]. You failed to point out the...

In the Spotlight at Orlando The Central Florida Chapter’s Air Force Gala in Orlando, Fla., paid tribute to the role of USAF aerial reconnaissance, spotlighting some of its pioneers and practitioners. The 26th annual black-tie affair served as the culmination...