Veterans Service Organizations: Supporting a Changing, Growing Population of those who Served
VA, Vietnam and Gulf War era veterans have now reached a rough equilibrium – about one-third of the total each …
U.S. Air Force
Book Review – Area 51 Black Jets: A History of the Aircraft Developed at Groom Lake, America’s Secret Aviation Base
Billed as the “first fully-illustrated history of Area 51,” Area 51 Black Jets: A History of the Aircraft Developed at …
Book Review – Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
The release of former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates’ Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War made waves around …
The U.S. Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific Region: A Metaphor for Understanding the Rebalance-Pivot
As Yogi Berra famously stated, “it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” In an attempt to sort …
Book Review – X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age
In the annals of experimental aircraft, the X-15 is not as revered or as remembered as the Bell X-1, which …
TRICARE and the Defense Budget
These days, any discussion of an executive branch agency’s budget request must begin with a caveat: While the Budget Control …
Mercyhurst University’s Institute for Intelligence Studies (Sponsored)
As a combat engineer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Cpl. Chip Buckley understood the importance of making informed decisions, and …
The Evolution of the U-2 Dragon Lady
With the Lockheed Martin U-2 Dragon Lady set to give way to the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, President Barack …
Ukraine Response: U.S. Deploys Additional Aircraft to Poland and Baltics
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is deploying more aircraft to Poland and the Baltics in response to the Russian …
Distributed Battle Management: DARPA Seeks to Manage Increasingly Complex Contested Airspace
Anyone who has seen the 2005 movie Stealth has seen a vision of a unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) fighting …