Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgSmackdown in Iran ‘15 years of incredible work’—the inside story of Operation...
July/August 2025
Vol. 108, No. 7
By the time the 2026 defense budget request arrived on Capitol Hill in June, Congress was closing in on passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, a massive tax-and-spending bill that included some $150 billion for defense. The budget reconciliation measure narrowly passed the House on July 3 and was signed into law by President Donald Trump on the nation’s 249th birthday. Now comes the hard part: The House and Senate are still hashing out their versions of the 2026 defense policy and spending bills.
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgCheap drones may be changing warfare, but the value of air superiority...
Strategy & Policy: NATO Members Sign Up for More Spending
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgN ATO appears to be getting serious about spending enough on defense...
Disconnected by Design: A New Way to Employ 5th-Gen Jets
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgDisaggregated Collaborative Air Operations offers a creative responseto China’s focus on disrupting...
Editorial: Global Reach, Global Power
“Top Gun: Maverick” captured movie audiences with a plot built around the mission to destroy a fictional country’s uranium enrichment facility hidden deep in a remote mountain range. ... In June, we saw the remake: The Air Force executed the real thing as seven B-2 bombers, guided by Air Force stealth fighters, glided invisibly into Iranian airspace and delivered 210 tons of perfectly engineered ordnance on two remote nuclear sites.
WORLD: Air Base Defense
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgExperts Warn of Pacific Threats By Matthew Cox Ukraine’s drone strike on...
WORLD: Training
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgMajor Exercises Kick Off By Greg Hadley The Air Force and Space...
WORLD: Advanced Technology
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgAir Force Pushes Ahead with 2 Hypersonic Missile Programs By John A....
WORLD: Personnel
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgUSAF, USSF Hit Recruiting Goals—3 Months Early By Chris Gordon The Space Force...
WORLD: Space
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgCommerce Cuts Space Traffic Management Program By Shaun Waterman The first Trump...
Faces of the Force
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgTell us who you think we should highlight here. Write to letters@afa.org....
Verbatim
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgA-10 Scar Tissue “We wouldn’t be having this discussion about the A-10...
Letters
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgWe love letters! Write to us at letters@afa.org. To be published, letters...
Heroes and Leaders: Alexander P. de Seversky
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgA futurist with airpower prowess. A lexander deSeversky was a well-known and...
AFA in Action: 16 Generals to Congress: Buy More F-35s, Fund the E-7
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgS ixteen retired four-star generals joined Air & Space Forces leadership in...
AFA Nominees: 2025-2026
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgCandidates for National Officers and Directors.The Air & Space Forces Association Nominating...
