Tag: Air Force

Historical aircraft previously utilized by the Texas Air National Guard are viewable to the public as a static display at the Texas Military Department Headquarters, Camp Mabry, in Austin, Texas.

National Security

Texas Air Guard airman becomes first COVID-19 Air Force death

Abraham Mahshie · November 6, 2020 10:48 pm

National Security

Space Force to get first astronaut in outer space swearing in

Abraham Mahshie · November 5, 2020 11:00 am

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., said that the U.S. can't afford its nuclear stockpiles and could project the same level of deterrence with a smaller number of them. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

National Security

House Armed Services chairman foreshadows change to nuclear posture and modernization delay if Biden wins

Abraham Mahshie · November 3, 2020 8:21 pm

Magazine - Life & Arts

Crew chiefs don’t have feathers

Trent Reedy · October 30, 2020 3:00 am

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. â Chief of Space Operations General John W. âJayâ Raymond elbow bumps an Airman after landing at Peterson Air Force Base, Oct. 20, 2020. Raymond visited the Front Range installation preside over the Space Operations Command stand-up Oct. 21, 2020.

Magazine - Features

Starship troopers

Abraham Mahshie · October 30, 2020 3:00 am

On Tuesday, Russia hinted it might be planning to use its most advanced air defense system, the S-400, to push U.S. forces out of Syria. This would allow the country to defend its military bases on Syria's Mediterranean coast and to create an air defense bubble around any advancing forces elsewhere in the country. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Beltway Confidential

Sanction Erdogan for being Putin’s useful S-400 idiot

Tom Rogan · October 23, 2020 8:05 pm

Airman 1st Class Alexandra Ayub runs on a road near the missile alert facility in Nebraska during a four-day deployment in 2016. Although Ayub works within a fenced in facility, she does her physical training outside of the gates in the vast expanse of open land that surrounds the Missile Alert Facility.

How Air Force’s ICBM missileers deal with stress and isolation during coronavirus restrictions in the middle of nowhere

Abraham Mahshie · October 20, 2020 6:47 pm

Greece partners with US to gain air superiority over Turkey

Joel Gehrke · September 29, 2020 3:13 pm

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper delivers a statement on Iraq, at President Donald Trumpâs Mar-a-Lago property, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Palm Beach, Fla.

Beltway Confidential

Mark Esper’s misplaced arrogance on the Chinese navy

Tom Rogan · September 18, 2020 10:12 am

US airman dies in Kuwait accident

Haley Victory Smith · September 16, 2020 11:21 pm

In this photo taken on Sept. 3, 2013 and released by the Chinese Navy on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, sailors line up on a Chinese nuclear submarine at the Qingdao submarine base in east China's Shandong province. (AP File)

National Security

China’s nuclear arms buildup ‘inconsistent’ with no-first-use policy, StratCom chief says

Abraham Mahshie · September 14, 2020 5:46 pm

Chinese soldiers march after the inspection of the honor guard during a welcome ceremony at PLA Headquarters in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, Pool)

Beltway Confidential

Pentagon delivers Joe Biden a China nuclear weapons wake-up call

Tom Rogan · September 2, 2020 1:26 pm