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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 …

Manufacturers argue over what constitutes a next-gen fighter jet

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

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 …

It’s time to adapt our security strategy to leverage America’s conventional strengths

The U.S. military is a dominant fighting force, capable of rapid global power projection and able to defeat state adversaries …

Our cover story this month touches a nerve that has pulsated, barely hidden, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: The health and robustness of our civil-military relations. Public support for the …

Advanced fighters are not the whole answer to air power challenges

Retired Col. Thomas Ehrhard, in his Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments study “An Air Force Strategy for the Long Haul,” …

A universal carrier is not the combat vehicle our ground forces need

In “A vehicle for modern times [December/January AFJ],” by retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, the call for a Ground Combat …

TO MAJ. GEN. ANTHONY CUCOLO for his well-intentioned but poorly thought-out directive to court-martial any soldier in his command who gets pregnant or who impregnates a fellow soldier. Not surprisingly, Cucolo was …

Friends and colleagues are our best pointers to an extremist

The term “lone wolf” was popularized in the 1990s to refer to an extremist who acts alone to avoid incriminating others. American …

More than 15 years after Gen. Colin Powell’s tour as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, pundits and scholars are again worried about cocky generals “playing politics.” For his decisive outspokenness, some critics …