An F-16 Fighting Falcon conducts air-to-air refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker in 2022. (Senior Airman Zachary Rufus/Air Force) This is a developing story. A U.S. Air Force KC-135 refueling aircraft ...

The war in Iran has wiped out military installations and political leadership in the country, but America could face ...

Professor Robert Pape warns Iran is using Vietnam War tactics to trap the US in a widening military conflict that could spiral toward WW3, as Trump administration enters eleventh day of strikes ...

The US and Israel have been drawn into a conflict with Iran that bears uncomfortable parallels with the Vietnam War ...

Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones not only at Israel but also across the Gulf. Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Missiles slammed into interceptors over Doha and Abu ...

An investigation of the effects of the U.S. Air Force bombing of Afghanistan finds that air strikes appeared to increase subsequent insurgency attacks by the Taliban, not diminish them.

For air-campaign planners, the first order of business is destroying or at least neutralizing the enemy’s integrated ...

What began as a small deployment of U.S. Marines to protect an airbase at Da Nang in Vietnam escalated into one of the most ...

This means that highly effective military operations are taking place in a strategic vacuum. Worse, Donald Trump is now pointing to these missions as if the excellence with which they have been ...

Capt. John Ripley hung 500 pounds of explosives under a bridge, swinging hand over hand for hours, to stop a major offensive in Vietnam.

In the years following the Vietnam War (post 1975), one rare aerial incident stood out in military aviation history. A foreign pilot claimed the destruction of a U.S. combat aircraft, creating ...

Roddie Edmonds, Terry Richardson and Michael Ollis, who respectively fought in World War II, the Vietnam War and in the ...