All AU Press publications are online and free to download from our website: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/AUPress/.
Print copies of AU Press publications are available at no cost to active duty, total force, retired military. libraries and research centers, and Department of Defense personnel and organizations. To order print publications, e-mail AirUniversityPress@au.af.edu or call 334-953-2773 (DSN 493). Please refer to the AU Press code number at the end of the full publication synopsis (e.g., B-155, CPP-2, AU-2). Please note, some publications are only available in electronic format.
Air University Press (AU Press) is part of Air University's (AU) Academic Services and is the publisher for AU and the US Air Force. Since 1953, it has edited, published, and distributed over 1.1 million student papers, curriculum texts, faculty research pieces, journals, and scholarly books to further thought critical to the intellectual growth of the Air Force.
Air University General Order No. 54, 28 September 1953, brought AU Press into being to support the mission of AU. The press was chartered to publish significant contributions of research and scholarship in the Air University, the USAF, and other sources... [and] to enhance the academic prestige and support the accreditation of the Air University.
Our journal products include Air & Space Power Journal, the flagship professional publication of the US Air Force. We also produce Strategic Studies Quarterly, a forum for strategic-level discussions about national and international security policies and evolving defense strategies. Additional publications include Journal of the Americas (JotA), Journal of European, Middle Eastern, and African Affairs (JEMEA), Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (JIPA), and Wild Blue Yonder (WBY). JotA is a forum for original research articles and review articles seeking to stimulate professional dialogue on Air and Space Power among the members of the Armed Forces of the Americas, historians, professors, and the general public. JEMEA, is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal cutting across both the social sciences and airpower operational art and strategy. JIPA is a forum for worldwide dialogue regarding the Indo–Pacific region, spanning from the west coasts of the Americas to the eastern shores of Africa and covering much of Asia and all of Oceania. WBY is a peer-reviewed online journal and forum focused on how to reshape the way we think about air, space, cyberspace, and the multi-domain. These editions are published quarterly in print and electronic format.
In 1997 the press placed its first publications online. On 3 January 2003, the press launched a redesigned website in celebration of its 50th year. In its first half-century, the press distributed approximately 500,000 publications. Just in the last 10 years, the press distributed over 600,000 books by capitalizing on new technologies to help warfighters understand air and space power. As the new millennium progresses, our project editors, copy editors, illustrators, marketing specialists, and typesetters will continue striving to meet the research, curriculum, and scholarly needs of Air University's schools and faculty members. Our future goals include further developing the electronic publishing process, streamlining the publication and distribution of books, journals, and research papers.
Air University Press is a proud member of the Association of University Presses. We are part of a community of publishing professionals and institutions committed to the highest caliber of research-based scholarship and advocate for the fundamental role of scholarly publishing in achieving academic excellence and cultivating and disseminating knowledge.