WORLD: Space

July 28, 2023
World-Space: New Space Force Four-Stars; Counterspace weapons needed for Space Superiority.

WORLD: Operations

July 28, 2023
World-Operations: Russian Fighters Interfere with US Drones.

WORLD: Leadership

July 28, 2023
World-Leadership: CMSAF Bass Letter to Airmen on Standards; Key Insights from Gen. Charles Brown, the next CJCS.

Verbatim

July 28, 2023
A collection of quotes on airpower, spacepower, and national security issues.

Faces of the Force

July 28, 2023
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To achieve that, Congress and the Pentagon must make a strategic shift in priorities, providing an additional redirecting of $10 billion to $20 billion annually to the Department of the Air Force. This is the only way to remain ready today while modernizing for tomorrow.
It’s impossible to overstate how central a role space plays in this whole conversation, whether you’re talking about the sensors, whether you’re talking about comms, space is going to play an extended role.
We’re coming off a couple of decades of conflict in which all of our comms were essentially secured, we were not competing with a peer, and I think most of us in the room believe the next conflict will be quite different from that.
The Air Force’s primary platform for air attack against the most heavily defended targets will be the sixth-generation B-21 Raider, featuring a degree of stealth “orders of magnitude” stealthier than the B-2A Spirit it will replace.