The Air Force as well as the rest of the Armed Forces and the rest of the United States government faces an unusual crisis in budgeting. All are scrambling about trying to determine the least-bad parts of the budget to trim, or, in worst case, cut. Clearly this needs radical…
By Robbin Laird 01/26/2011 - During the first quarter of 2011, we intend to publish our second book in our air power series. The first was entitled The Three Dimensional Warrior and laid out the USMC approach to operations within which air power is the critical cement.
An Interview with Marty Jenkins 01/26/2011 - "If you were to choose a better name, what would it be? It might be the joint network system. The program isn't providing that end user device, that handheld or that desktop. It's providing the entire infrastructure that enables that."
01/02/2011 - slideshow Sailors assigned to the littoral combat ship USS Freedom watch from the flight deck as a set of gates closes within the Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal. Freedom was conducting counter-illicit trafficking operations and theater security cooperation in the U.S. 4th Fleet area of responsibility.
01/02/2011 - slideshow In this slide show, a USMC operation to ferret out adversaries and to protect the local population is pictured.
01/02/2011 - slideshow The 169th Fighter Wing sent F-16's, pilots, maintenance specialists, and support personnel overseas for its first major combat operation since 2003, when the unit deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom and flew more than 400 combat missions. The 169 FW is now an "Active Associate" wing.
By Dr. Richard Weitz 01/02/2011 - The Navy estimates that a rail gun might be tested at sea by 2018 and might begin appearing on operational warships by around 2025, providing the substantial technical and cost barriers can be overcome.
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