Ending our oil dependency
Oil, and our reliance on it, is a catalyst for terrorism. Yet the U.S. military is powered, fueled and transported by it. Cmdr. Jeff Eggers urges a major research and development effort to wean our military off oil; Maj. Danny Davis shows why the nearing of peak oil production spells a potential...
The fuel gauge of national security
Military doctrine favors the indirect and unexpected path to decisive results, hence the prevalence of the flanking...
BY CMDR. JEFFREY W. EGGERS
Military doctrine favors the indirect and unexpected path to decisive results, hence the prevalence of the flanking...
BY CMDR. JEFFREY W. EGGERS
Fueling alternatives
Air Force Capt. Rick Fournier made history March 19 when he flew a B-1B Lancer over Texas and New Mexico — marking...
Air Force Capt. Rick Fournier made history March 19 when he flew a B-1B Lancer over Texas and New Mexico — marking...
Running on empty
We are likely standing today on the precipice of a radical shift. The U.S. must therefore prepare to endure — or...
BY MAJ. DANIEL L. DAVIS
We are likely standing today on the precipice of a radical shift. The U.S. must therefore prepare to endure — or...
BY MAJ. DANIEL L. DAVIS
Essay
BY SCOTT HAMILTON - “The initial shock may be over about the Air Force awarding the KC-45A tanker contract to Northrop Grumman and its prime subcontractor, Airbus parent EADS, but the political gamesmanship that’s permeated the competition from the start has only ratcheted up.”
DARTS & LAURELS
Flunked againTO THE PENTAGON, for scoring a D-minus after the latest examination of its weapons program acquisition practices. When major development programs from ships to satellites to aircraft each...
FORUM PICK
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LT. COL. HARRY FOSTER, MAXWELL-GUNTER AIR FORCE BASE, ALA., RESPONDS TO LT. COL. EDITH DISLER’S “FLYBOYS” ARTICLE, APRIL AFJ...
LT. COL. HARRY FOSTER, MAXWELL-GUNTER AIR FORCE BASE, ALA., RESPONDS TO LT. COL. EDITH DISLER’S “FLYBOYS” ARTICLE, APRIL AFJ...
COMMENTARY
Perspectives
RALPH PETERS
Can we win in Afghanistan? It’s an odd question, considering that we’ve already won, by historical standards. Yet unrealistic metrics of success continue to pile up, fabricated in ignorance — often willful and even spiteful — of Afghan reality. Political partisans intent on...
RALPH PETERS
Can we win in Afghanistan? It’s an odd question, considering that we’ve already won, by historical standards. Yet unrealistic metrics of success continue to pile up, fabricated in ignorance — often willful and even spiteful — of Afghan reality. Political partisans intent on...
Perspectives
CAPT. ROBERT M. CHAMBERLAIN
It has become a matter of conventional wisdom that insurgencies last an average of 10 years and that the insurgents win about 40 percent of the time. These statistics have appeared in USA Today, PBS, Pentagon media briefings and on National Public Radio. The insight these numbers are meant to convey...
CAPT. ROBERT M. CHAMBERLAIN
It has become a matter of conventional wisdom that insurgencies last an average of 10 years and that the insurgents win about 40 percent of the time. These statistics have appeared in USA Today, PBS, Pentagon media briefings and on National Public Radio. The insight these numbers are meant to convey...
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