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75 Years of Afa|46 Extending the Power of a Legend 32 | Homeland Air Defense 40 |Guardians of Space20 | Romance of the Air 54 Resetting the BONE CONNECTING TO THE FUTURE Will Today's Era of Innovation Continue? |36 January/February 2021 $8 Published by the Air Force Association 75 YEARS OF AFA|46 EXTENDING THE POWER OF A LEGEND Image courtesy of www.af.mil Maximum B-52 readiness with COLLINS NACELLES AND STRUTS reduced maintenance • Modernized for new engines • Proven nacelle technology For nearly 70 years, every B-52 variant has flown with our • Maximum fleet readiness proven technology. And today, our modernized nacelles and • Reduced maintenance struts are more capable than ever – protecting engines and • Demonstrated on every B-52 variant optimizing airflow – with reduced maintenance. Nobody knows B-52’s nacelles and struts better than Collins Aerospace and we stand ready to support this legend for decades to come. Learn more by visiting collinsaerospace.com/b-52 © 2020 Collins Aerospace CA_8528_B-52_Aero_PowerofaLegend_AirForceMagazine.indd 1 9/18/20 4:31 PM Client: Collins Aerospace - Military Ad Title: B52 Power of a Legend Filepath: /Volumes/GoogleDrive/Shared drives/Collins Aerospace 2020/_Collins Aerospace Ads/_Military/B-52_Power of a Legend /4c Ads/CA_8528_B-52_Aero_AirForceMagazine.indd Publication: Air Force Magazine - October Trim: 8.125” x 10.875” • Bleed: 8.375” x 11.125” • Live: 7.375” x 10.125” STAFF Publisher January/February 2021. Vol. 104, Nos. 1 and 2 Bruce A. Wright Editor in Chief Tobias Naegele Managing Editor Juliette Kelsey Chagnon Editorial Director John A. Tirpak Russian Federation Ministry of Federation Defense Russian News Editor DEPARTMENTS FEATURES Russian Tu- Amy McCullough 95 bombers, 2 Editorial: What 14 Q&A: Weathering the Storm Assistant History Tells Us shown here with wing-mounted Kh- Managing Editor By Tobias Naegele Lt. Gen. Warren D. Berry, the USAF deputy chief of staff for lo- gistics, engineering, and force protection, speaks with Editorial 101 cruise missiles, Chequita Wood on Oct. 14, 2020, Senior Designer 4 Letters Director John A. Tirpak about new logistics concepts, air base probed Canadian defense, and managing the health of the Air Force’s facilities. and U.S. air spaces Dashton Parham 6 Index to to goad, provoke, Pentagon Editor Advertisers 30 How Long Will the B-1 Last? and test the two Brian W. Everstine nations’ respons- By John A. Tirpak Digital Platforms 8 Airframes es. See “Forging Fixes are ongoing, but significant structural repairs are likely a Shield for the Editor Homeland,” p. 40. Jennifer-Leigh 16 Verbatim to continue until the Bone retires. Oprihory 18 World: Biden’s 36 The Great Experimenter Senior Editor new administration; By Brian W. Everstine Rachel S. Cohen Space Guardians; Will Roper spawned a revolution in acquisition as USAF’s Production aircraft mishaps; procurement chief. Will his innovations survive? Manager Air Force diversity Eric Chang Lee report; and more ... 40 Forging a Shield for the Homeland Photo Editor Mike Tsukamoto 31 Faces of the Force By Jason Sherman A “new era” of domestic air defense dawns. 59 Namesakes: Contributors Keesler 46 Seventy-Five Years of AFA John T. Correll, Jennifer Hlad, 62 AFA in Action By Jennifer Hlad and Staff Jason Sherman, Lt. Col. Anthony Fallen Warriors Seventy-five years ago the Air Force Association was found- Tingle, USA (Ret.) Portrait Project; ed. Here’s a brief glimpse of some of its accomplishments. AFA Helps Bring USO to Lakenheath; 50 5G Netcentricity Happy Birthday, ON THE COVER Space Force By Lt. Col. Anthony Tingle, USA (Ret.) The coming revolution in networking will redefine the con- 64 Heroes and cept of sensor fusion. Leaders: ADVERTISING: An Airman in the 54 Romance of the Air Kirk Brown Fight: Pitsenbarger By John T. Correll Director, Media Barnstormers, wing walkers, and air racers lit the spark to Solutions enchantment with aviation. 703.247.5829 Mike Tsukamoto/staff Mike [email protected] 60 The Air Force Association’s Top Issues Innovation has been the hallmark The Air Force Association’s annual compilation of the associ- of USAF under ac- SUBSCRIBE ation’s policy positions for the year ahead. quisition chief Will & SAVE Roper’s leadership. Subscribe to See “The Great Air Force Magazine Experimenter,” p. 36. and save big off the cover price, plus get a free membership to the Air Force Association. 1-800-727-3337 Air Force Magazine (ISSN 0730-6784) January/February 2021 (Vol. 104, Nos. 1 and 2) is published monthly, except for two double issues in January/February and June/July, by the Air Force Association, 1501 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA 22209-1198. Phone (703) 247-5800. Periodical postage paid at Arlington, Va., and additional mailing offices. Membership Rate: $50 per year; $35 e-Membership; $125 for three-year membership. Subscription Rate: $50 per year; $29 per year additional for postage to foreign addresses (except Cana- da and Mexico, which are $10 per year additional). Regular issues $8 each. USAF Almanac issue $18 each. Change of address requires four weeks’ notice. Please include mailing label. POSTMASTER: Send changes of address to Air Force Association, 1501 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA 22209-1198. Publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Trademark registered by Air Force Association. Copyright 2020 by Air Force Association. JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 AIRFORCEMAG.COM 1 EDITORIAL By Tobias Naegele What History Tells Us e have been studying history and relearning old lessons. aerospace as the best places to work; planned production of our This is never easy. January’s riot at the Capitol and the most advanced, lethal, and e¡ective weapons—the systems that Wsecond impeachment of a single sitting president were delivered the greatest deterrent value to our nation—were cut short. unique, yet the discord and division that preceded them is not. Deferring national defense investments are like deferring main- Three decades after Operation Desert Storm, it is easy to forget tenance on your house. You may be able to get another year out of that Americans were hardly united about committing to that conflict. that roof, maybe two. But wait too long and you’ll have to replace Some 183 representatives in the House and 47 in the Senate voted plywood and trusses, not just shingles. That’s why the Air Force is against authorizing military force to compel Iraq’s withdrawal from now spending billions to keep its B-1B bombers flying. Purchased Kuwait. The House and Senate both had solid Democratic major- in the 1980s, they weren’t designed or built to last so long, but their ities, yet Republican President George H.W. Bush won bipartisan successor, the B-21, won’t arrive for another decade. At this writing, support for the campaign. it’s still more than a year from its first flight. Having recently vanquished the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and “The force that won the Gulf War no longer exists,” AFA noted still licking wounds from failure in Vietnam, many Americans were in an eerily prescient policy statement in the fall of 1993. “The loath to become mired in a conflict someplace else. But once the existing force … is operating at an arduous tempo to meet opera- bombs started falling, once the works of stealthy F-117s, laser-guided tional commitments. Fighter and mobility forces are particularly bombs, and other modern marvels of Cold War weaponry went on pressed. The Air Force of the future may draw combat units from a display, the tide turned. service half the size of the Air Force that waged It took just 1,000 hours to crush the capacity “Those who cannot the Desert Storm air campaign. Unless system and will of the Iraqi army. The U.S. Air Force led a remember the past are modernization proceeds, that force will be left 38-day coalition air assault. When that was done, condemned to repeat it.” to fight the conflicts of the 21st century with the the Army and Marines swept in to complete the same equipment—obsolescing and in reduced destruction, a 100-hour maneuver to chase the —George Santayana, numbers—employed in the Gulf War.” already diminished and defeated Iraqi force philosopher The threat of global war had receded, but that home to Baghdad. AFA statement warned the public and Congress Here was America’s strategy laid out in plain sight: a techno- that the impending world order would be neither peaceful nor logically superior force that didn’t have to match up in numbers benign. What followed was a period of nonstop conflict as the because its capabilities were so vastly superior, its speed, range, United States became enmeshed, one after another, in Somalia, and reach so overwhelmingly greater, its forces so much more Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, usually professionally trained, that the fight was no contest. The Iraqis in more than one place at a time. outnumbered the Americans 535,000 to 415,000 at the start, and Russia has reset its nuclear and strategic forces. China has stud- still they never had a chance. ied and countered virtually every strategic advance in America’s his- America, however, embraced the wrong lesson. Rather than see torically technologically superior forces. Iran and North Korea have this one-sided victory as vindicating the nation’s sacrifices over the flouted international law and diplomacy while developing nuclear decades—a decisive victory at the cost of fewer than 150 Americans arms. They, like Russia and China, engage in cyber warfare daily. lost in combat—Congress doubled down on defense cuts and an And as the world became more dangerous, our nation was even bigger peace dividend for winning the Cold War. weakened by our own fractious infighting. We are the spoiled kids In 1992, a seemingly invincible President George H.
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