In contrast to Adam Lowther, I'm skeptical about the potential for airpower diplomacy: Simply put, the United States Air Force is not a tool honed for “soft” or “smart” power. Its understanding of the commons is at odds with the idea of a positive sum...
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Now this is an interesting piece: What if there was an aircraft that was significantly faster, flew higher and cost half as much in today’s dollars as the F-35? And.
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and.
Bernard Finel and I refrain from talking about health care:
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.
I know what will solve this problem: Airpower! In the Bible, Jesus gave us an example in Luke Chapter 10 about a man who was beaten, robbed and left for.
And for such a long time I suspected that Israel would squash the sale of F-16 to Iraq. Looks like some other people are also nervous: Massud Barzani, the president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan, said he opposes the sale of F-16 warplanes to Iraq while...
When I assembled a syllabus for this semester's Airpower seminar, I noted that there appeared to be a pair of biographies of John Boyd; Grant Hammond's Mind of War, and.
John Boyd is rolling in his grave... A U.S. Air Force scientific advisory board is urging the service to create specialized medical teams to focus on pilots with hypoxia-like symptoms.
Martin Van Creveld's Age of Airpower is a survey of airpower theory and practice since the 19th century. Van Creveld ranges widely in his discussion, from the military employment of balloons prior to the advent of aircraft through World War II and the jet age....
A cowardly, mendacious editorial from The New Republic on Syria: To be clear, we do not want to see troops deployed to Syria. We are not arguing for another Iraq.
Yesterday, Marcy Wheeler wrote a post pointing out that two of the six Americans confirmed killed by drone strikes were servicemen, a pair of Marines killed during a close air.