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August 1999, Vol. 82, No. 8


Editorial: Visions and Countervisions in Space
By John T. Correll
Information is a weapon, and Space Command is a combat command.

Washington Watch: Lessons Learned and Re-Learned
By John A. Tirpak
The USAF Chief of Staff reflects on what Operation Allied Force in the Balkans demonstrated and on what it reaffirmed.

Space Almanac
Compiled by Tamar A. Mehuron
Facts, figures, agency and system profiles, budget data, and other information about US and international space programs.

Echoes From Allied Force
Patterns begin to emerge from the operational data.

The China Problem
By Peter Grier
Congressional investigations document China's massive acquisition of US technology.

Valor--Miracle at U Tapao
By John L. Frisbee
Logic said no one could be alive in the B-52, but something drew Capt. Brent Diefenbach to the blazing bomber.

Forward Deployed
Photography by Guy Aceto and Paul Kennedy
The 3rd Air Expeditionary Group formed up in May to provide additional tactical air assets in Korea.

Training in Networks
By Bruce D. Callander
"Distributed training" technology allows pilots in one area to interact with those in other areas as if they were in the same airspace.

Congressional Veterans' Affairs Establishment
Compiled by Chanel Sartor
Photochart of Capitol Hill's veterans' affairs panel members.

Honor Bound
By Stewart M. Powell
A Pentagon study provides new details-about bravery, torture, and endurance-on the experience of American POWs in Vietnam.

AFA Nominees for 1999-2000
Candidates for national offices and the Board of Directors.

The Chart Page

Aerospace World

Verbatim


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