1982: Slugging it out in print
A UH-1 Huey makes a delivery in Vietnam. (Army)
From the archives: August 1982
(Editor’s note: In mid-1982, AFJ hosted a running debate about the combat effectiveness of past and future helicopters …
Read more ›A UH-1 Huey makes a delivery in Vietnam. (Army)
From the archives: August 1982
(Editor’s note: In mid-1982, AFJ hosted a running debate about the combat effectiveness of past and future helicopters …
Read more ›At the risk of immodesty, we say a happy 150th …
Read more ›Sparks flew when Army, Marine, and SOCOM leaders met to talk about “strategic landpower,” reports Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. of Breaking Defense. For U.S. jointness, said Maj. Gen. Bennet Sacolick, the director …
Read more ›Even as the drums of war seem to be leading President Obama toward airstrikes in Syria, a counterbeat of experts and observers say we’ve tried that before. Brookings’ Daniel Byman argues that …
Read more ›Here’s another plea to stop misusing words that have perfectly good and useful definitions: Christopher Mewett’s response to Rear Adm. Michael Smith’s article in Proceedings about the rebalance to the Pacific. Writing …
Read more ›Rear Adm. David G. Farragut (right), commander of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, stands with Capt. Percival Drayton at the wheel of the squadron flagship, the USS Hartford, in Mobile Bay, Alabama, …
Read more ›The USAF plans to add some 60 satellite launches to its 2018-30 schedule, one of the few military areas marked for growth in coming decades, writes Foreign Policy’s John Reed.
Writing at …
Read more ›Humvees cross a floating bridge in South Korea in 1988, three years after the Army began fielding the vehicle. (Army)
From the archive: August 1981
Marking the 60th anniversary of the U.S.-South Korea alliance, the Korea Herald looks at two U.S. concepts — Air-Sea Battle and Strategic Landpower — and their implications for the peninsular.
Barry Watts …
Read more ›The US Air Force cannot keep up with the growing demand for unmanned aircraft operators, partially due to a lack of volunteers. In a paper published by the Brookings Institution, Col. Bradley …
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