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2,009 No. 7
July 2009

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Editorial: The Strategy’s Last Stand?

By Robert S. Dudney

The two-war standard has withstood years of challenges. There is a good reason.

Fighter of The Future

By John A. Tirpak

The F-35—the last remaining manned combat aircraft program—moves to the center of US airpower plans.

Playing with Fire

By Rebecca Grant

Operational trends over 40 years have shown that US airpower depends completely on tankers.

Big Sky Kings

Photography by Ted Carlson

The "Vigilantes" of the Montana Air National Guard now take to the air in F-15C Eagles.

How the Predator Grew Teeth

By Walter J. Boyne

The little UAV had an inauspicious start. Things have picked up considerably.

Chart Page Special: Defense Budget at a Glance

By Tamar A. Mehuron and Heather Lewis

The State of the Arsenal

By Megan Scully

Things weren’t all that great to begin with. And then came “Bloody Monday.”

Gunship Worries

By Otto Kreisher

They are indispensable. Everyone loves them. There are no plans for new ones.

Engagement in Africa

By Stewart M. Powell

A modest airlift into Sudan marks the start of what may prove to be a new regional preoccupation.

But What About the Air Corps?

By John T. Correll

The nation’s air arm in World War II was the Army Air Forces. However, there’s more to the story.

The Mayaguez Rescue

By George M. Watson, Jr.

On Cambodia’s Koh Tang in 1975, US forces fought the last battle of the Southeast Asia War.

Washington Watch

Issue Brief: America’s Triple Threat

Air Force World

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Airpower Classics: T-28 Trojan

Keeper File: Ben Rich’s “Odd-Looking Flying Machine”

Letters

AFA National Report

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Preemptive Action
"Since the [Defense] Department's acceptance of the independent estimates last fall, we've been, in just about every respect, acting as if the program were in a Nunn-McCurdy breach. ... We've been taking all of the mitigating and corrective action that we would take as if there were a Nunn-McCurdy breach."
—Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, discussing with reporters the restructure of the F-35 strike fighter program announced in February 2010 and the probability that the program will soon exceed Nunn-McCurdy cost-monitoring thresholds that would necessitate, per US law, a program review and corrective steps, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2010.

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Message for Grandma
"She has working for her as a citizen in the United States an Air Force Reserve that has some very talented, capable, patriotic, and willing individuals doing the business to keep this nation free. Just like her generation—the 'Greatest Generation'—was, I am very proud of the folks that we have got. If not the second greatest, then they are an extension of the greatest generation and they are ready, willing, and able to do the things that she would want them to do to make sure we keep our freedoms."
—Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, Air Force Reserve chief, responding to a reporter's question on what the reporter should tell his 85-year-old grandmother to convey to her the importance of Air Force Reservists to the nation's security, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 19, 2010.