Commentaries

April 18, 2017
The Air Force celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan

On April 18, 1942, 75-years ago, Americans woke up to the startling news that Army Air Force medium bombers had attacked Japan. After four months of doom and gloom news, including the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia, and the recent surrender of 75,000
March 29, 2017
Strategic Joint Wargame Challenges Future Leaders Ability to Think Multidimensional

The 34th annual Joint Land, Air and Sea Strategic Special Program, or JLASS-SP, is part of a six-day event that is the culmination of a seven-month elective, designed to provide participants an opportunity to develop and implement their own regional strategies against realistic problems. These
Jan. 17, 2017
Step up: Don’t be afraid to be a Mitchell, Doolittle, or Arnold

The U.S. Air Force is sitting at a nexus in which the world is becoming increasingly dangerous and complex, and our nation is asking us to do things that keep us busier now than ever before, yet we have fewer people now than at any point in our history—just over a third of what we had in the 1950s!
Nov. 22, 2016
The return of Tactical Air Command and Military Airlift Command

The Air Force made history this year by resurrecting two of its historical major air commands, the Tactical Air Command and the Military Airlift Command, Sept. 26 and Oct. 1, 2016.The historical commands were active from the 1940’s until 1992. They were made active again by consolidating them with
May 10, 2016
Remembering the Holocaust

Dr. Robert Kane, is the Air University Historian and the grandson of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.

The Air Force celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan

Strategic Joint Wargame Challenges Future Leaders Ability to Think Multidimensional

Step up: Don’t be afraid to be a Mitchell, Doolittle, or Arnold

The return of Tactical Air Command and Military Airlift Command

Remembering the Holocaust