This Thursday, our Editor-in-Chief will be giving a free lecture at the @rafmuseum.bsky.social! #airpowerhistory

#Commentary – The Shahed Lesson: When Great Powers Emulate the Underdog By Őmer Őzkan “These drones are originally an Iranian design. We took them back to America, made them better, and fired them right back at Iran,” said Admiral Brad Cooper, the commander of U.S. Cen…

#Commentary – The Shahed Lesson: When Great Powers Emulate the Underdog balloonstodrones.com/2026/04/20/c...

#BookReview – American MiG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF “Red Eagles” MiG Squadron Reviewed by Dr Brian Laslie Rob Zettel, American MiG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF “Red Eagles” MiG Squadron. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2026. Appendices. Glossary. Index. Images. Hbk. 366 pp. …

#BookReview - American MiG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF “Red Eagles” MiG Squadron balloonstodrones.com/2026/04/09/b...

Differing Perspectives: The Death of the Red Baron and the British, Australian and Canadian Official Histories In some news, I found out last week that my paper proposal for the Australian Historical Association’s annual conference had been accepted. The conference will be held at Macquarie University…

Differing Perspectives: The Death of the Red Baron and the British, Australian and Canadian Official Histories drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/d...

Iran’s Asymmetric Counterair Campaign: Attacking the U.S. Air Force’s Nests and Eggs On March 27, Iranian drones and missiles struck Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, destroying an E-3 Sentry, an airborne command center for U.S.

Iran’s Asymmetric Counterair Campaign: Attacking the U.S. Air Force’s Nests and Eggs warontherocks.com/irans-asymme...

How NATO's Air Defense Future Is Unfolding In 2024, Shaan Shaikh wrote, “Three Visions for NATO Air and Missile Defense,” where he laid out three potential scenarios NATO could take in the next few

How NATO’s Air Defense Future Is Unfolding warontherocks.com/how-natos-ai...

Closing the Air and Missile Defense Gap in the Indo-Pacific During last summer’s 12-day war between Iran, Israel, and the United States, the U.S. military supported Israeli air and missile defense operations by

Closing the Air and Missile Defense Gap in the Indo-Pacific warontherocks.com/closing-the-...

#BookReview – American MiG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF “Red Eagles” MiG Squadron Reviewed by Dr Brian Laslie Rob Zettel, American MiG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF “Red Eagles” MiG Squadron. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2026. Appendices. Glossary. Index. Images. Hbk. 366 pp. …

#BookReview - American MiG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF “Red Eagles” MiG Squadron balloonstodrones.com/2026/04/09/b...

RAFHS Conference paper presented at the RAF Museum

A timely @rafhistorical.bsky.social conference on the RAF and Nuclear Weapons being held today at @rafmuseum.bsky.social

Differing Perspectives: The Death of the Red Baron and the British, Australian and Canadian Official Histories In some news, I found out last week that my paper proposal for the Australian Historical Association’s annual conference had been accepted. The conference will be held at Macquarie University…

For the first time, I am presenting a paper at the annual Australian Historical Association conference. I will discuss how the death of the Red Baron was treated in the official histories of Britain, Australia, and Canada. #WW1 #airpowerhistory drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/d...

#VirtualLecture – An ‘admirable achievement’: The ‘War in the Air,’ Creating the Narrative, and the Origins of a Discipline On 23 April 2026 (UK time), I will be delivering a virtual lecture at the Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum. It is always good to return to the RAF Museum and deliver a lecture, even if my attendance wi…

Don't forget that on 23 April, I will be giving a #VirtualLecture at the @rafmuseum.bsky.social on 'An ‘admirable achievement’: The 'War in the Air,' Creating the Narrative, and the Origins of a Discipline' drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/v... #WW1 #airpowerhistory #plsRT

Happy Birthday to the RAF! An April Fool's Joke neither the British Army nor the Royal Navy have really got over 😅🤣

Differing Perspectives: The Death of the Red Baron and the British, Australian and Canadian Official Histories In some news, I found out last week that my paper proposal for the Australian Historical Association’s annual conference had been accepted. The conference will be held at Macquarie University…

Differing Perspectives: The Death of the Red Baron and the British, Australian and Canadian Official Histories drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/d...

#OTDIH – The Australian Air Force is formed On 31 March 1921, Australia formed its own air force, the Australian Air Force, which later became the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). This branch of Australia’s military did not emerge from a v…

On 31 March 1921, the Australian Air Force was formed, later the Royal Australian Air Force. The selection of the date illustrates the limits of isomorphic culture! drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/o... #RAAF #airpowerhistory #militaryculture

#OTDIH – The Australian Air Force is formed On 31 March 1921, Australia formed its own air force, the Australian Air Force, which later became the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). This branch of Australia’s military did not emerge from a v…

#OTDIH – The Australian Air Force is formed drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/o...

#Commentary – Protecting Airfields from Drones and Infiltration By Dr Jacob Stoil From the F-35 Lightning II to the F-15E Strike Eagles, even the most advanced aircraft are sitting ducks while they are on the ground. It should come as no surprise that the best …

With the loss on the ground of an E-3 there has been much talk about whether it could have been anticipated. In September I published an article on @balloons2drones.bsky.social warning of such an incident & what we need to do to prevent it.

balloonstodrones.com/2025/09/30/c...

Today is the 105th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Australian Air Force. The Royal Air Force was established on 1 April 1918 - April Fool's Day. However, as historian Alan Stephens wrote, 'this was one tradition Williams did not wish to share.'

The delusion of easy victory from the air may have seduced the US into another war Air superiority is supposed to deliver a quick triumph. But history has shown that promise to be written on the wind

The delusion of easy victory from the air may have seduced the US into another war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

A biplane from the First World War.

A month today, 23 April 2026, @airpowerhistory.bsky.social will be delivering #VirtualLecture on our Crowdcast Channel
on 'An ‘admirable achievement’: The 'War in the Air,' Creating the Narrative, and the Origins of a Discipline'

Entry is free
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Why Britain fell in love with the T-tailed aeroplane Why was it time for T?

Why Britain fell in love with the T-tailed aeroplane open.substack.com/pub/hushkit/...

#ResearchNote – No. 1 Squadron RAAF Goes to War in Malaya By Dr Ross Mahoney Editorial note: This article first appeared on the author’s website. It has been reproduced here with permission. On 26 July 1950, No. 1 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Forc…

#ResearchNote - No. 1 Squadron RAAF Goes to War in Malaya balloonstodrones.com/2026/03/16/r...

Are you a @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Masters student working on air & space related topics?

FASI are hosting a group session where students can discuss dissertation proposals & get tailored industry expert advice.

📅 19 March
🕰️ 11:00 - 12:30
📍Dockrill Room

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#VirtualLecture – An ‘admirable achievement’: The ‘War in the Air,’ Creating the Narrative, and the Origins of a Discipline On 23 April 2026 (UK time), I will be delivering a virtual lecture at the Royal Air Force (RAF Museum. It is always good to return to the RAF Museum and deliver a lecture, even if my attendance wil…

On 23 April, I will be delivering a #VirtualLecture at the @rafmuseum.bsky.social on the subject of 'An ‘admirable achievement’: The 'War in the Air,' Creating the Narrative, and the Origins of a Discipline' drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/v... #airpowerhistory #WW1 #RAF #plsRT

When discussions in 1958 considered merging the two RAF Staff Colleges at Bracknell and Andover, a new merged college was proposed at RAF Odiham! #airpowerhistory #RAF

China’s air force has gone quiet around Taiwan. No one has a good explanation | The Strategist After the US-Israeli attack on Iran began, the Chinese air force stopped flying around Taiwan—and the reason isn’t at all clear. Observers have offered various possibilities, but none seems convincing...

China’s air force has gone quiet around Taiwan. No one has a good explanation | Thijs Stegeman | www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-air-f...

French Air Power 1918-1940 dupuyinstitute.org/2026/03/10/f...

#ResearchNote – No. 1 Squadron RAAF Goes to War in Malaya By Dr Ross Mahoney Editorial note: This article first appeared on the author’s website. It has been reproduced here with permission. On 26 July 1950, No. 1 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Forc…

#ResearchNote - No. 1 Squadron RAAF Goes to War in Malaya balloonstodrones.com/2026/03/16/r... #RAAF #ColdWar #airpowerhistory #plsRT

#VirtualLecture – An ‘admirable achievement’: The ‘War in the Air,’ Creating the Narrative, and the Origins of a Discipline On 23 April 2026 (UK time), I will be delivering a virtual lecture at the Royal Air Force (RAF Museum. It is always good to return to the RAF Museum and deliver a lecture, even if my attendance wil…

On 23 April 2026, I will be delivering #VirtualLecture at the @rafmuseum.bsky.social on the subject of 'An ‘admirable achievement’: The 'War in the Air,' Creating the Narrative, and the Origins of a Discipline' drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/v... #WW1 #airpowerhistory #plsRT

Mason, an officer in the Education Branch, reflected that it 'irritated' the then Director of Educational Services for the RAF! 2/2

In an interesting bit of trivia, when Group Captain R.A. Mason became the RAF's first Director of Defence Studies in the 1970s, he did not realise that the title 'Director' was normally reserved for Air Commodores. 1/