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World: Culture--Gen. C.Q. Brown's steps to transform the Air Force.
World: Space--AFGSC launches second Minuteman III missile; We're not ready to fight China in Space.
World: Acquisition--Time to invest in Next-Gen Tankers; Acquisition inflation.
Lt. Gen. James C. Slife was set to transition from his role commanding Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fla., at the beginning of October, with a likely assignment to the Pentagon next. He visited the Air & Space Forces Association in September ...
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In Sky Warden, AFSOC gains a flexible new hunter-killer.
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Inside the Biggest Noncombatant Evacuation in U.S. Air Force History.
America needs a more resilient missile warning system. Both China and Russia are fielding a new generation of hypersonic, low-flying missiles that U.S. ground-based radars are unable to track in the time needed to provide warning and cue defenses.
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With the Russian army pummeling Ukraine in Europe, and China increasingly threatening its neighbor Taiwan militarily in the Indo-Pacific, the Air National Guard has embraced the culture of can-do innovation at the core of ACE.