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Air-to-Air Combat

Reviewing the Air Force Way of War: Making the Machine Human

This paper, by Lieutenant Colonel Scott Gunn, USAF, was originally published by The Strategy Bridge. “The four-ship of F-15C Eagles raced across the sky at thirty thousand feet. The flight lead, call sign Death-1, focused on his radar, looking for enemy aircraft in the vicinity. He also knew those enemy aircraft were looking for him.”…

August 14, 2015 in Air-to-Air Combat, Reviews, Training.

The 90% Solution, Some Guy Called ‘Pareto’ and Why the Best Fighter Pilots are Often Seen as the Laziest

It became apparent to me during my last tour that a lot of the effort that I put into my work was inefficient. I remember speaking to a senior officer whilst I was deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan with the US Army and she said – ‘you have to just get the work out of the…

May 20, 2015 in Air-to-Air Combat, Training.
Red Flag Building

Red Flag, Realistic Training, and the U.S. Air Force’s Way of War after Vietnam

Forty years ago this November, the United States Air Force began an exercise designed to prepare its pilots to face the realities of combat in a simulated, and yet very realistic, training exercise. Since that first exercise in November 1975, the USAF has continued to train its pilots for air combat under the Red Flag…

May 8, 2015 in Air-to-Air Combat, Training.
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