Robert Kaplan's Atlantic article on the B-2 is an embarassment, both for himself and for the Air Force personnel that he interviewed. It's all fine and well to find a particular kind of military hardware appealing, but Kaplan's enthusiasm for the B-2 leads him to...
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Matt writes, in respone to David Axe's suggestion that F-22s ought to be unleashed against Indian or British aggressor squadrons:Uh huh. But think about that. Why would the US Air.
A bunch of people ask some really interesting questions in these two threads, questions that I think are deserving on their own post.lemuel pitkin writes:I think if you reframe the.
I'm pretty much in agreement with Matt on the Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan:As William S. Lind observed on June 11, the rise in strikes is indicative of the ongoing failure of the "surge" on the ground. After all, "calling in air is the...
Remember that millenium thing, when every computer was supposed to go haywire and virtually none did? Well, a squadron of six F-22s traveling from Hawaii to Japan experienced a computer.
Nick Turse has a fine discussion of the disastrous role that the Air Force is playing in the war in Iraq. The contribution of the Air Force is intentionally understated..
I understand why the Air Force is going to be stepping up patrols along the Iraq-Iran border. The USAF needs to be able to tell Congress that it's contributing in a positive way to the war effort, and the Bush administration needs to blame its...
Evidence cannot discredit revolutionary doctrine, as the revolutionaries simply interpret new evidence in whatever way they see fit. Air power enthusiasts have taken rather a hit lately, first with the.
Kingdaddy has some useful commentary on "Effects Based Operations", a term which apparently refers to operations directed against enemy strategic targets rather than military forces. Such targets include morale, industry,.
F-16s flying against Su-30s? My heart beats faster...Cope India 2002 focused on airlift operations. The 2004 joint exercise involved F-15s and a variety of Indian aircraft, including SU-30s. The surprising this about Cope India 2004 was that the Indians won; it has been remarked that...