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2,010 No. 1
January 2010

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Editorial: The Obama Bomber

By Robert S. Dudney

A new aircraft program is drawing near, but pitfalls await.

Global Force Worries

By Adam J. Hebert

The Air Force is struggling to prevent erosion of its global capabilities.

Holding Fire Over Afghanistan

By David Wood

Airmen adapt to the McChrystal directive.

Depot Nightmares

By Marc V. Schanz

At Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, what workers see can be awfully grim.

Electronic Warfare Meets Austerity

By John A. Tirpak

The Air Force has abandoned big centerpiece programs and will go with modest enhancements.

The Vanishing Arsenal of Airpower

By Rebecca Grant

Negative events have begun overtaking the once mighty and innovative US aerospace industry.

STRAT-X

By Peter Grier

This secret 1960s study left its stamp on US nuclear forces for the next 40 years.

The Light Attack Aircraft

By Marcus Weisgerber

USAF reconsiders the mix of aircraft needed to provide CAS and armed overwatch in irregular conflicts.

Fighters Far and Wide

By Marina Malenic

World air forces are on pace to buy more than 3,000 fighters over the next decade.

A Habit of Heroism

By John T. Correll

With 200 combat missions as a PJ in Vietnam, Duane Hackney was the most decorated airman in the Air Force.

Washington Watch

Issue Brief: Drifting in Space

Air Force World

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Airpower Classics: C-123 Provider

Chart Page: The Bomber Squeeze

Flashback: Chennault at the Bat

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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.