ARMED FORCES: The New Dimension

(See Cover) Much is required of those to whom much is given. So viewed, the ability speedily to put forth the nation's power . . . is one of the clear duties involved in the Christian word "watchfulness"—readiness for the call that may come, whether expectedly or not.

—Alfred Thayer Mahan Rear Admiral (1899)

Somewhere, some time after MIG alley, the change came. For years the U.S. had glimpsed promises of a new U.S. Air Force in the making: a solitary jet streaking the far sky with a white contrail, reports...

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