February 2018

Vol. 101, No. 2

USAF Has Too Many Missions and Not Enough Airmen

Then-1st Lt. Duston O’Brien, a pilot with the 71st Fighter Training Squadron, boards a T-38 at JB Langley-Eustis, Va. A1C Tristan Biese In congressional testimony and speeches over the last few years, senior Air Force leaders have gotten almost rote...

Forward Deployed

Then-A1C Cody Linholm (right, USAF) observes as German air force crew chiefs prepare a Eurofighter Typoon. SrA. Abby Finkel BLUE FLAG IN ISRAEL US airmen in November had the chance to work with airmen from seven other nations during Blue...

Aperture

The Waverider hypersonic Scramjet just before its second test flight, in June 2011. Photo: Boeing Dec. 15, 2017— A PEEK AT THE NEW WORLD ORDER A new era of “great power competition” is underway, and the US will have to...