WORLD: Readiness

July 28, 2023
World-Readiness: Mobility Guardian 2023; Cuts to F-15E Fleet; A Look at Classified Information Regulations.

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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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.
The general impression over the past few decades that U.S. air bases were somehow sanctuaries was a historical anomaly. The threat has grown qualitatively and quantitatively.