Archive for August, 2013

1988: Gen. Gray gives AFJ an earful

1988: Gen. Gray gives AFJ an earful

From the archives: August 1988

Interview: Gen. Alfred M. Gray

Commandant of the Marine Corps

By LuAnne K. Levens and Benjamin Schemmer

Gen. Alfred M. Gray

AFJI [the magazine was at the …

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1983: A hopeful debut for the F-20A

1983: A hopeful debut for the F-20A

An F-20 Tigershark fires a Maverick missile. (Air Force)

From the archives: August 1983

The fighters that weren’t there

By Anthony H. Cordesman

Airshows are many things to many people, but to …

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SecNav sees green water ahead

The USS Makin Island’s hybrid-electric propulsion system can run on auxiliary propulsion at low speeds and on gas turbines at higher speeds. (Navy)

The USS Makin Island’s hybrid-electric propulsion system can run on auxiliary propulsion at low speeds and on gas turbines at higher speeds. (Navy)

SecNav Ray Mabus says the recent spike in oil …

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1979: Press corps rates the SECDEFs

From the archives: August 1979

The Reporters Who Bring You the Defense News and How They Rate The Men Who Make It

Editor’s note: In the summer of 1979, AFJ asked the …

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U.S. imports Pakistan strategy to Yemen

Writing at Foreign Policy, Gregory D. Johnsen says the U.S. efforts to drone-kill AQAP leaders in Yemen is a poor substitute for a winning strategy.

Micah Zenko argues at a Council on …

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Climate change and war

Brad Plumer, writing at washingtonpost.com, rounds up various reactions to last week’s report in Science that sought to quantify the influence of climate on human conflict: “At a basic level, it’s easy …

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1945: Atomic Attacks on Japan

1945: Atomic Attacks on Japan

From the archives: August 4, 1945

U.S. Unleashes Bombs on 2 Jap Cities

The atomic bomb, product of three years of intensive scientific research, and an expenditure of approximately $2,000,000,000, has been …

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Could Air-Sea Battle cause a war?

David Gompert and Terrence Kelly warn in Foreign Policy that the Pentagon’s new concept for defeating anti-access/area-denial efforts may actually hasten such conflicts: “But while the proponents of Air-Sea Battle are careful …

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1945: War-end twist for Tokyo Rose

1945: War-end twist for Tokyo Rose

Iva Toguri d’Aquino, one of several women who made Japanese propaganda broadcasts as Tokyo Rose

From AFJ’s archives: August 11, 1945

Tokyo Rose Cited

Tokyo Rose, Radio Tokyo’s flaxen voiced air commentator …

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1945: Treating PTSD during WWII

From the archives: August 11, 1945

Battle Fatigue Cure

A special receiving company is rehabilitating more than 200 soldiers a month, all of them hospital cases and most of them suffering from …

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