Michael Wynne, Dead at 82 M ichael Wynne, the 21st Secretary of the Air Force, died Oct. 17. He was 82 years old. Wynne was Secretary from 2005 to 2008, a stretch of time when the U.S. military was...
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A map pinned to the wall in a basement 36 years ago will go on display in November at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The map, used to identify strategic targets across Iraq in the fall of 1990,...
Chuck Horner is the most successful air commander since World War II. In the summer of 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and overran the country in two days. President George H.W. Bush declared Iraq’s aggression would not stand and began building...
For over two decades the United States Navy has been contracting for commercial air refueling services for itself and a other users, including the U.S. Marines Corps, U.S. Air Force, and the air arms of at least five partner militaries....
Having lost territory to Stalin in 1940, then sided with Hitler to win it back, Romania landed itself on the wrong side of World War II. For fighting men like Lt. Constantin “Bâzu” (“Buzz”) Cantacuzino, there was seemingly little choice...
In June 2026, airpower experts from the U.S. Air Force, seven allied air forces, and industry convened for a three-day wargame designed to stress notional 2036 USAF combat forces in a series of concurrent crises: a Russian assault against NATO...
Verbatim – September/October 2026 × Ready or Not “When General Wilsbach came in as the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, he made “fixing” one of the key elements of what we need to do, and put a spotlight...
New Enlisted Recruiting Commander By Todd South The Air Force appointed a colonel to head enlisted recruiting, more than 18 months after combining officer and enlisted recruiting into a single organization. Col. Lacresha A. Merkle took command of Air Force...
New Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missiles By Greg Hadley The Pentagon’s top research lab is interested in developing a hypersonic cruise missile prototype that provides “a revolutionary leap in operational performance,” as the first wave of U.S. hypersonic weapons enters production...
The 25 years since 9/11 have been disastrous for our military air and space enterprise. Decades of nonstop military operations exhausted the Air Force, and the cost of ongoing ground operations led the Pentagon to delay and sometimes forgo modernization. The Air Force contracted as ...
Summer is a unique time at the U.S. Air Force Academy for cadets to focus almost entirely on military training, unconstrained by competing academic, sports, and extracurricular priorities.
The Airman’s imperative to defend from small uninhabited aerial vehicles. The air base has become a central target set. Small drones have become one of the defining air threats of modern warfare, representing a structural change in the character of...