The Misty FACs of the Vietnam War were a legendary bunch—only 144 in all. Those with an abiding interest in this famous unit should be on the lookout for a new book now circulating in galleys. “Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail” is the work of reporter Richard Newman and retired Maj. Gen. Don Shepperd—himself a Misty. The two collaborated in an Air Force Magazine story in 2000.
The U.S. military needs to wake up to the fact that global dominance is no longer a viable strategy for national defense, because pursuing that unrealizable goal is making the country less safe, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said April 22. Emerging defense technologies like swarms of…