This article was originally posted on The Strategy Bridge. We are sharing it here due to its outstanding contribution to airpower dialogue. The Army of 2025 and Beyond will effectively employ lethal and non-lethal overmatch against any adversary to prevent, shape, and win conflicts and achieve national interests. It will leverage cross-cultural and regional experts…
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.”…
The US Army, the US Navy and the US Marine Corps each possess an aviation component to meet their organic requirements, but only the USAF has the full range of offensive, defensive and support capabilities to act in the air, in space and in cyberspace. It carries out five core missions: air and space superiority;…
When we first took to the air, it was not to attack—it was to gather. It was to find. The first military use of aircraft occurred during the French Revolutionary Wars. In June 1794 the French used a tethered hydrogen balloon to observe the movements of the Austrian army during the Battle of Fleurus. The…
Sharing a rich history and close friendship, the French Air Force, Royal Air Force and United States Air Force signed a Tri-Lateral Strategic Initiative Charter in 2013. The Charter was intended to aggregate the world’s pre-eminent airpowers into “three air forces capable of rapid, cohesive and effective coalition operations across the full spectrum of conflict.”[1]…
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