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June 12, 2025
Barnes Center’s Foundations receives prestige education achievement award

The Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education’s Foundations Force Development Section received the 2024 General Muir S. Fairchild Educational Achievement Award during a ceremony on Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, June 11, 2025.
June 12, 2025
Building a Mission Command Culture

Mission command is a way of operating that prioritizes clear communication from the top down, often reducing or limiting the step-by-step instruction, while empowering the individuals responsible for carrying out the mission to utilize their talents and skills to accomplish their tasks in order to
May 20, 2025
SECAF Presents 2024 leadership awards to Air University faculty, staff and students

Edwin H. Oshiba, Performing the Duties of Under Secretary of the Air Force, Department of the Air Force, presented leadership awards to several Air University staff, faculty and students during a presentation ceremony May 6, 2025.
May 9, 2025
Barnes Center brings enlisted PME to AU campus

The headquarters for Air Force enlisted professional military education is now on Air University’s Chennault Circle, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
April 30, 2025
April Doctrine Paragon: Col John Boyd's Perspective

This month, the LeMay Center highlights the Airman’s perspective, as demonstrated by Col John Boyd’s determination to maintain control of the air.
April 21, 2025
Air University Press new journal announcement

Air University Press new journal announcement: Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Vol 8, No 1.
April 21, 2025
Air University Press new book announcement

Air University Press new book announcement: Human, Machine, War: How the Mind-Tech Nexus Will Win Future Wars edited by Nicholas Wright, Michael Miklaucic, and Todd Veazie.
April 1, 2025
March Doctrine Paragon: Operation BOLO

This month, the LeMay Center highlights Operation BOLO’s counterair operations and tactical innovation. In September 1966, Col Robin Olds, a WWII “double ace,” assumed command of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing (8 TFW) at Ubon Royal Thai Airbase. Upon taking command, Col Olds focused squarely on