July 2010

The new watchword seems to be use of soft power to help protect and preserve vital US interests.

Airlift generates confidence. Refuelers generate anxiety. USAF must try to reconcile the two.

Air Forces Africa has picked up the pace of air operations in the continent’s most restive region.

“Extended deterrence” will go on, and the F-35 fighter will take up the burden.

Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser, SOUTHCOM commander, sees illicit trafficking networks destabilizing Lat

In the 1950s, the epoch-making U-2 spyplane was young, promising, and still very, very secret.

C-27 program changes have put the Air Force and Army “on a far more amicable path.”

Remotely piloted aircraft are big business, but USAF must come up with the trained people to fly them.

Weasels, using themselves as bait, cleared a path through the SAMs.

This time, AFA expects some 1,000 high schools to square off in search of the top prize.

Choosing wrong on China; Gates Quixote; Tanker battle rolls on ....

The Pentagon recently asked Congress to raise military pay in 2011 by 1.4 percent. This increase would be equal to wage growth in the nation’s private sector, according to the Employment Cost Index. ECI is a measurement prepared by the...

Donley Cites Budget Vise The Air Force budget is under attack from within, Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley said during a speech on Capitol Hill at the inaugural meeting of the Senate Aerospace Caucus May 6. Stated succinctly, the...

Too Fat “Are we becoming a nation too fat to defend ourselves?”—Retired Army generals John M. Shalikashvili and Hugh H. Shelton, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noting that 27 percent of military-age Americans are too overweight to...

“Commencement Remarks” President George H. W. Bush Falcon Stadium, US Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, Colo. May 29, 1991 FULL TEXT VERSION Rarely if ever has an American President promoted airpower more unequivocally than did George H. W. Bush at...

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National Sovereignty I read the editorial of Robert Dudney in the June issue of Air Force Magazine and I agree with its premise [“Warfare v. Lawfare,” p. 2]. However, I think the article needs some additional information. For quite some...

Neither Rain, nor… Hosted by the Everett R. Cook Chapter in Jackson, Tenn., the Tennessee State Convention featured Air Force Association Chairman of the Board Joseph E. Sutter and Army National Guard Col. Arthur W. Oliver as keynote speakers—and a...