Air Force fear peddling met with more criticism

It seems I’m not alone in taking the Air Force to task for their new ad campaign. DANGER ROOM patches together a pretty scathing attack piece calling the ads ‘scare mongering:’
No one expects commercials to be word-for-word accurate — not even ads from the U.S. military. But a new Air Force commercial, about the [...]

Air Force trying to stay relevant - Part 2

As I concluded in Part 1, the Air Force doesn’t have a role in dealing with a rogue leader “who wants to flex his muscles.” So why then are they running an ad suggesting that they do?
I’m sure you’ve seen other variations of the Air Force’s new ad campaign. There’s one where a satellite is [...]

Air Force trying to stay relevant - Part 1

While reading Newsweek yesterday, I came across a rather interesting photo with the question “How do you discourage a rogue leader who wants to flex his muscles?” At first I thought it was a lead into a bad-ass story. As such, you can imagine how disappointed I was when I spotted the word ‘advertisement’ on [...]

Air Force wants liquified coal to fuel jets

Even though it’s not renewable or clean, the Air Force wants to fuel their planes with liquefied coal:
WASHINGTON — Squeezed by the soaring cost of oil-based jet fuel, the Air Force is converting its gas-guzzling fleet of aircraft to synthetic fuels and encouraging the creation of a liquefied coal industry that could tap the nation’s [...]

Uber alles!

The Air Force has a new slogan, “Above All.” Unfortunately, I don’t think they realized it was already taken…by Nazi Germany. That’s right, “Above All” translates into German as “Uber Alles.”
2008 - US Air Force:

1939 - Nazi Germany:

Dem plans for Iraq neglect permanent bases

Time to pour cold water on the Democratic hopefuls plans for Iraq.
I disagree with both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton who have promised to precipitously end the war in Iraq. In a perfect world we could end the war today. But if we lived in a perfect world we wouldn’t have invaded Iraq in the [...]