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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 …

You’ve heard of the “Disruptive Thinkers,” the (generally) young service members intent on shaking things up? Four of them lay out their manifesto in AFJ, and invite one and all to their …

Writing at AFJ, Al Mauroni, who directs the Air Force Counterproliferation Center, blasts away at five nuclear-proliferation myths contained in the new edition of the Truman Security Briefing Book.

Defense companies are …

On Aug. 29, Armed Forces Journal will turn 150 years old. Beginning as the weekly Army and Navy Journal newspaper in 1863, the publication has over the year published articles and letters …

Naval War College professor Milan Vego points to a dangerously unsettled point of doctrine: “When a joint force goes to war at sea, sound command and control requires that the force’s commander …

Here’s a terrific (if long) piece by Black Hawk Down reporter Mark Bowden on drone strikes. Its discussion of the effects ranges from the pilots to U.S. strategy, and offers vivid detail …

As top U.S. and NATO generals wait for the end of the fighting season in Afghanistan, James Stavridis, the former NATO supreme commander-turned-Fletcher School dean, argues in Foreign Policy that the time …

Col. Ellen Haring, the officer who sued the Army last year to challenge the constitutionality of the ground combat exclusion policy, argues in AFJ that combat fitness isn’t all about physical strength. …

In “What the QDR Should be asking, but isn’t: Lessons for leaders from the interwar years,” AFJ contributing editor Peter W. Singer writes, “When today’s leaders compare our turbulent times to the …

One of the last things Mark Maybury did before stepping down as the U.S. Air Force’s chief scientist was to put the finishing touches on a new vision for his service’s science …