In 1988, just before the Cold War faded out, America’s strategic nuclear deterrent boasted some 13,000 warheads, but two subsequent decades of negotiated cuts have reduced the total to roughly 2,000 “operationally deployed” weapons. Warhead losses of such magnitude inevitably...
Roadside Bombs Kill Four Lt. Col. Mark E. Stratton II, 39, and SrA. Ashton L. M. Goodman, 21, died May 26 of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Stratton, of Houston, was serving as commander...
Eliminate the Air Force “The Air Force should be eliminated, and its personnel and equipment integrated into the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. … The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps are at war, but the Air Force is not. …...
“Remarks on the F-117” Ben R. Rich F-117A Final Delivery Ceremony Palmdale, Calif. July 12, 1990 FULL TEXT VERSION Ben R. Rich, head of Lockheed’s Skunk Works in the period 1975-91, was the father of the first stealth fighter—the F-117....
Like It or Lump It In your May 2009 editorial, “The Air Force That Comes Next” [p. 2], you suggest that “the future Air Force won’t be what its leaders expected it to be.” I would contend that it will...
A Return to Minot When AFA Chairman of the Board Joseph E. Sutter visited Minot AFB, N.D., and the Gen. David C. Jones Chapter in April, the local CBS affiliate took note. “Because we live next to a military base,...
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