Author: andrei

North Korea is apparently in the final stages of preparing its Tapeodong-2 missile for launch. Commercial imagery from DigitalGlobe, posted by GlobalSecurity.org, shows the the three-stage missile sitting on the…

It’s a moment that some thought would never arrive. But after almost three years of legal wrangling, a former Air Force Judge Advocate General, Colonel Michael Murphy, is finally facing…

The Air Force pulled something of a surprise on Thursday, selecting Barksdale AFB as the headquarters for its new Global Strike Command. Barksdale, which is located near Shreveport, Louisiana, beat…

Maybe it’s the influence of sports in our lives. Or that human desire to measure everything in terms of who came out on top, and who got left behind. Whatever…

A timely reading assignment from today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. It would be an understatement to say that the Journal’s editorial writers hit the proverbial nail squarely on…

In 1994 and 1997, there were a pair of somber ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. They commemorated the return of two helicopter crews, one Army and one Air Force, killed…

Barely eight months after he quashed Air Force plans to establish a “Cyber Command,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to recommend creation of a similar organization, to face the…

Barely three months into the job, Edwin Caldera’s stint as Chief of the White House Military Office may be coming to an end. Or so you might think. Mr. Caldera…

If the Air Force–and the Obama Administration–were hoping that the “fly-by” kerfuffle would quickly subside, they were sadly mistaken. More than 24 hours after Air Force One’s ill-advised, low-level flight…

How does the Obama Administration plan to save money? If you guessed “cutting defense,” give yourself a gold star and move to the head of the budgetary class. The Wall…