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Army-Air Force spat over long range fires exposes policy failures

April 7, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

The U.S. Air Force general in charge of managing the service’s bomber inventory slammed the Army’s new plan to base long-range missiles in the Pacific, calling […]

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The extreme wisdom of duplication in military acquisition

February 28, 2020 Eric Lofgren 2

We enter a scene at a Congressional hearing in April 1944 — just months ahead of the D-Day landings — where top defense officials were […]

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