Assessing the Battle Damage in Syria

By Marc V. Schanz
Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said Wednesday’s air strikes in Syria did not completely destroy the oil refineries controlled by ISIS, but they did degrade the organization’s ability to use them to support their forces and to fund their...

Headquarters Elements Deploy to Iraq

By Marc V. Schanz
The air campaign that launched in Syria late Monday is meant to strategically degrade ISIS, a significant contrast to the air strikes being conducted in Iraq, which have been far more “tactical,” aiming to blunt ground movements, break sieges, and...

Don’t Forget the Pacific

By Amy McCullough
US Pacific Command boss Adm. Samuel Locklear said the growing air campaign against ISIS extremists in Iraq and Syria should not significantly affect the planned pivot to the Pacific. “It’s not like the world just walked away because of the...

First A-29 Delivered to USAF

Sierra Nevada Corporation and Embraer Defense and Security delivered the first United States-built A-29 Super Tucano light air support aircraft to the US Air Force during a ceremony Thursday in Jacksonville, Fla., according to a company release. It is the...

Unarmed Minuteman III Launched from Vandy

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., on Sept. 23. The test flight traveled approximately 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, according to an Air Force release. Airmen from the 576th...

PACAF Hosts Joint Conferences

Military leaders from 20 countries joined together at JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Sept. 22-25 for two key strategic conferences. The PACRIM Airpower Symposium, formerly the PACAF Director of Operations Conference, and the Senior Enlisted Leadership Conference, brought participating countries together...