Air Force

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• 3/21/2021
  

  Power to Rule the Skies: A Forgotten Innovator of the Strategic Air Command

  by Brent D. Ziarnick

  General Thomas S. Power should emerge from the shadow of his mentor Curtis LeMay as a leader of the United States Strategic Air Command at the critical moment in the dawn of the Cold War. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  7/15/2020
  

  Lieutenant Lowderback’s Short Snorter: A Flight Nurse’s Service and Souvenir in WWII

  by Elizabeth DeWolfe

  This World War II souvenir captures frivolity in the midst of the seriousness of war; life in the moment in a time of great uncertainty; and the freedom young women found in serving in the Army’s medical air evacuation squadrons.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  6-3-18
  

  The Air Force’s Strange Love for the New B-21 Bomber

  by William J. Astore

  The Pentagon wants 200 of the bombers at more than half a billion dollars each (not counting cost overruns).

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  6-21-16
  

  Dominating the Skies -- and Losing the Wars

  by William J. Astore

  Air Supremacy Isn’t What It Used to Be