I have a piece up at David Axe's joint on military institutions and the USAF: With the Iraq War over and the fighting in Afghanistan winding down, why does the United States need to maintain two large land armies, the Army and Marine Corps? The...
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This is some pretty gruesome stuff: Governors united across party lines to protest the potential loss of their pet C-130s and other planes. Members of Congress lined up behind the potent.
Well, now I'm well and truly fucked. Thank you, Anton Scalia. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a shocking decision, declared the U.S. Air Force unconstitutional earlier today. In a 5-4.
Derp: The Department of Defense is a leader in equal opportunity for all patriots seeking to serve this great nation. . . The vigilant warriors in AFGSC understand they are all equal and unified in purpose to provide a safe, secure and effective deterrent force...
I've heard of inter-service conflict, but... In 1987, while flying off the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, a Lt. j.g. Timothy W. Dorsey fired a missile at an Air Force F-4 reconnaissance jet.
This originally posted over at Duck of Minerva; had intended to post here, then simply forgot. Context is "Virtual APSA" in which many who had intended to present at APSA.
Apropos of this story on the reintegration of B-52 into an air-sea framework, some recent research on the book reminded me of how differently the Soviets handled air-sea cooperation. As readers of Red Storm Rising may recollect, Soviet...
Just a couple thoughts on the 60 Minutes F-22 expose. I listened in on a conference call by Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Adam Kinzinger yesterday, and they seem to.
An anonymous Air Force pilot decides to whine: As if twelve years wasn’t enough of boring meaningless holes in the sky while our most demanding combat skills atrophied and we.
Over at WPR, I have some thoughts on the USAF's latest effort to get rid of the pesky A-10 Warthog: For whatever reason, the A-10 has become a people’s favorite. It graces the cover of such popular texts as Charles Gross' “American Military Aviation.” In...
My WPR column this week builds on Sunday's Libya post: One of the crucial military questions that emerged from the campaign involves the effectiveness of airpower. With one long ground.
As a mild-mannered atheist and a harsh critic of the Air Force, you might expect me to be up in arms regarding the use of Christian just war theory in.