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Discusses the development of the Israeli Air Force since the unofficial war that started when the partition of Palestine was announced in November 1947. Serious obstacles to Israeli Air Force's growth; Secrecy surrounding the Israeli Air Force's operations and development; British support for Arab countries; Proofs about the existence of the Air Transport Command (ATC); Misconception about the ATC and the whole Israeli Air Force; Future of the Israeli Air Force.

This article focuses on developments regarding the military budget of the U.S. Both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committees get the full "posture" briefings and testimony while they are considering the $15 billion authorization bill for procurement of aircraft, ships and weapons. This year, in particular, the Air Force finds itself pausing for reassessment because of the advances in technology, the high cost of modern weapons and hard civilian decisions. The Army, for the moment, is doing all right with its long-overdue modernization program. The Navy steams happily ahead astride the Polaris missile submarine program.

The U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced in late January that, as a result of recent Soviet Union developments, his department would reduce its order for F-105D Thunderchief, pet of the U.S. Air Force, and gradually replace it with a modified version of the Navy's F-4H. "Phasing-out" the F-105, which represents 90 per cent of business for the company, meant that the company would lose $600 million in orders and have no production schedule beyond 1964, whereas it had - expected to roll until 1966 (it takes about two years to make an F-l05). However the officials of the aircraft making company Republic made no public protest against the phase-out at first, probably to avoid or at least post- pone the adverse effect on its stock position.

The article reports that now there are two Secretaries of the Treasury. The Department of Defense officials and the Bureau of the Budget came to the conclusion that concentrated Air Force waste by referring to the high costs of at least $5 billion, which had to be cut from the Department of the C-119 plane, as produced by one of the two manufacturers of Defense budget. In all the days of hearing, that is a matter deserving of serious consideration, in that have taken place, no military leader, none of Wilson is a measure of his unwillingness to repudiate at Staff--has testified that the strategic needs of the country this stage a policy of Secretary, reached by the are any less, or that the cuts will not impose an unacceptable money men on fiscal grounds and without reference to able military risk.

The article focuses on the agreement between Japan and the U.S., that will represent a full-fledged return to the appeasement policy followed during the past four years. News-agency reports from Tokyo stress the growing "moderation" of Japanese policy and seek to give the impression that civilian elements are gaining the upper hand over the military. The centralization of the Japanese army under-a new General Defense Headquarters commanded by the Emperor has been widely interpreted in our press as evidence of the ascendancy of civilian elements over the extremists of the army.

Presents news briefs related to several socio-political issues in the U.S. Urge of Democratic Chairman Howard McGrath and his assistant Gael Sullivan, for liberal appointments and adoption of progressive policies; Plans of General Dwight D. Eisenhower to meet Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin and discuss the problems of Soviet Union and U.S. relationships; Agreement of heads of Joint Chiefs on balanced sea, land and air forces, including a 55-group Air Force, under the Key West strategy.

Focuses on the official procedure for U.S. Air Force Academy graduates to file requests for becoming commanding officers (CO). Discussion on the case of Lieutenants George Joyal and Richard Pavel, who were asked to sign a promissory note in return for processing their CO requests, requiring them to pay the government $30,000 at six percent annual interest in monthly installments of not less than $100; Legal pretext for promissory notes presented to academy graduates in case they discharge as a CO; Introduction of a bill by Representative Carleton J. King requiring Air Force Academy graduates, who are later discharged as COs, to pay the government for the cost of their education.

There are units of the Army, Navy and Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) on more than three hundred college and university campuses across the country. At least once a week, 250,000 undergraduates put on uniforms to march, maneuver and take instruction in weaponry, tactics and military administration. This is a sizable commitment in terms of student effort. It is also of little practical value. What the students learn in ROTC bores them, gives them a dim view of what their military service holds in store, and has so little effect that almost all they learn has to be learned over again once the young officers enter on active duty.

Analyzes the importance of the contribution of military strategist and systems theorist Herman Kahn to the rationale of passive defense. View of Kahn that the Air Force's fighter planes cannot shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles; Suggestion of Kahn for the U.S. to project a convincing posture of firmness and a willingness to risk own destruction; Role of civil defense in credibility; Suggestion of Kahn regarding the implementation of the fallout shelter program of the U.S.

The article focuses on the Battle of Staraya Russa, where Red Army claims to have trapped a Nazi army of 90000 men, may prove of decisive importance. This city is the northern anchor of the German winter line and one of the strongholds which the Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler has ordered held at all costs. If Russians succeed in capturing it, the German positions in front of Leningrad will be endangered and the invaders may be forced to retreat on a wide front. The value attached to this city by the German High Command is suggested by the use of hundreds of planes in an attempt to provision it by air.

That article focuses on the fast carrier force, that provides the navy with the most mobile striking air arm in the world. Operating from movable bases, the carrier air force has a highly desirable offensive capacity for short-range attack and surprise and an equally desirable defensive capacity through the great fire-power the escort ships. The loss of Japanese aircraft, in the air and on the assembly line, have only recently begun to mount higher than the monthly production rate and it is too early to assume that the enemy's first-line air strength has fallen dangerously low.