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September, Air Force Magazine
Editorial: Conventional Un-Wisdom
The All-Seeing Air Force
Weapons School Rising
The Wynne Outbrief
Airpower on Canvas
The Services Meet the Warlords
GHQ Air Force
The Outstanding Airmen
Photochart of USAF Leadership
AFA Almanac

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Editorial: Conventional Un-Wisdom
By Robert S. Dudney
The strategists have peered into the future and have seen no need to worry much about state-on-state war.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on July 31 released a new national defense strategy. Not surprisingly, this event generated hardly a ripple in Washington, D.C.’s sluggish pool of summer political chatter.

It was, after all, the Bush Pentagon’s third strategy. In 2001, after the Sept. 11 attacks, then-Pentagon head Donald H. Rumsfeld unveiled his first. He issued the second in 2005. This one comes very late in an Administration, turning off media interest.

The Gates strategy, though, bears closer scrutiny. From all appearances, its main purpose is to exalt irregular warfare above more-traditional "conventional" missions. Gates clearly hopes it influences the next Administration. If it does, USAF’s forces, programs, and concepts could be affected.

The 23-page document lays out four striking assertions about the threat posed today by Muslim extremist irregulars. ...

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