The Founders’ wisdom
The Founders’ wisdom

BY LT. COL. PAUL L. YINGLING

The U.S. faces a number of difficult challenges in civil-military relations that carry with them profound effects on our national security. Among these issues are declining popular support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, growing isolation between the U.S. military and the society it serves,...

What civil-military crisis?
More than 15 years after Gen. Colin Powell’s tour as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, pundits and scholars are again...
BY JOSEPH J. COLLINS
DARTS & LAURELS
Dover haven
TO THE AIR FORCE for establishing a center at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware where families can wait to receive the remains of loved ones killed in war. Every service member killed in war...
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Perspectives
GENE MYERS
Retired Col. Thomas Ehrhard, in his Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments study “An Air Force Strategy for the Long Haul,” wrote that the U.S. faces three primary existing and emerging strategic challenges that are most likely to preoccupy senior decision-makers in the coming...
Perspectives

What defines a fighter jet as fifth-generation is the focus of much political wrangling, tussles over jobs and disputes between Europe and America.
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