Dan Hampton, author of Viper Pilot, doesn't sound like a pleasant man. This requires qualification; I suspect he'd be a lot of fun for a night of drinking, but he...
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Everything you wanted to know about flying the F-35B:
For the last five days I've been embroiled in the brutal, thankless process of moving self and family from the Queen City of the West to the Horse Capitol of.
I'm slowly making my way through this- there's some fairly interesting stuff regarding disputes between Nixon and Abrams on how airpower should be used in Linebacker I- but I wanted to pass along this nugget, from a conversation between Richard Nixon and CJCS Admiral Thomas...
Later this afternoon, I will begin a short research trip to the nation formerly known as the United Kingdom. My research had originally focused on pedestrian topics such as the.
I'll admit to getting pretty excited by the F-22 cancellation last year. It seemed to indicate that Robert Gates and the Obama administration were willing to get serious about costly.
Thank you, Russia: Russian state-owned aerospace group United Aircraft Corp. plans to bid for a U.S. Air Force tanker contract, teaming up with a U.S. partner, a lawyer representing UAC said March 19. "They're going to announce Monday [March 22] a joint venture with an...
The military procurement field has been made safe for Boeing:European defense and aerospace consortium EADS and its U.S. partner, Northrop Grumman, have handed an apparent $35 billion dollar gift to.
A few people have forwarded me this WaPo article about how the USAF is dealing with the increasing importance of drones. Unfortunately, the article doesn't really live up to its.
On Friday and Saturday, the Patterson School conducted its annual policy simulation. This year, Patterson students simulated the 22 hours following an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, with a focus on the diplomatic consequences of such an attack. The University of Kentucky School of...
In the process of engaging In Praise of Aerial Bombing, Edward Luttwak makes an odd claim:Back in 2006, while the Israeli Air Force was bombing down its target list in.
Today I'm at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama. I'm speaking on one panel and in two seminars. No idea what the topic might.