Welsh Becomes Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III succeeded Gen. Norton A. Schwartz on Aug. 10, becoming the 20th Chief of Staff of the Air Force, after the Senate lifted a hold on his nomination two weeks before....
Farewell Assessment “We have more backup [nuclear weapon] systems … than we actually have deployed. Some of that is a reasonable hedge, [but] there is probably room for reductions.”—Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, USAF (Ret.), former Chief of Staff of the...
“Oxford Union Speech” Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense University of Oxford, England Feb. 27, 1984 FULL TEXT VERSION The Oxford Union is a debating society at the renowned British university. In an infamous 1933 case, it voted 275-to-153 for...
Remember Space and Cyber In “A Force Rebalanced” (July 2012) [p. 28], Executive Editor John Tirpak does a masterful job of describing how and why our air domain forces must be modernized. However, in slightly over 3,000 words discussing our...
Coffee Talk Air Force Association Chairman of the Board S. Sanford Schlitt headed to Alaska in July, at the invitation of Alaska State President Harry Cook and former AFA National Treasurer Steven R. Lundgren. Cook and Lundgren, both members of...
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