Red Flag: Air Combat for the '80s

Welcome to Redland, a mythical country ravaged by hypothetical wars, a nation of targets and threats which declares war on the U.S. Air Force five times a year...... RED FLAG is a unique event - part wargame, stress test, team sport, readiness drill, laboratory experiment, dress rehearsal, and fighter pilot convention. It is the world's most complex and realistic aerial combat training exercise. Author Michael Skinner and photographer George Hall attended Red Flag and here give a detailed, close-up look at a world seen before only by the participants. RED FLAG is about Nellis Air Force Base, the Tactical Air Command's largest base. It is about the struggle of visionary air Force officers to establish realist air combat training. It is about the Aggressors, elite American pilots trained and equipped to fly and fight like Russians. But mostly, it is about the Players - Sierra Hotel pilots all - and their whirlwind introduction to flying on the edge.