American Aerospace Power [ONLINE ONLY] The Center for Strategy and Technology (CSAT) was established at the Air War College in 1996 to engage in long-term strategic thinking about technology and its implications for US national security. The Occasional Papers series is the result of CSAT research on topics developed from Headquarters Air
Blue Horizons IV [ONLINE ONLY] This study examines the implications of exponential technological change on the panoply of threats the US Air Force may have to face in the future and how the Air Force should posture itself to best deter those threats. Of principal concern by the year 2035 are threats in six separate areas: nuclear
Discord or “Harmonious Society”? [ONLINE ONLY] With its ancient cultural roots intact, the government of China, regarded by many of its people as having a “mandate of heaven,” is leading China into the future at almost blinding speed. Within the time frame covered in this monograph, China will supplant the United States as the
Resurgent Russia in 2030 This monograph is concerned with the direction Russia will take over the next 20 years, its growing influence on the world scene, and the particular challenges it will present to the United States by 2030. The determination that Russia will be an adversary is certainly not a foregone conclusion;