Feb. 21, 2024 From the Editor Æther: A Journal of Strategic Airpower & Spacepower Winter 2023 Editor Letter
Feb. 21, 2024 Israel’s Begin Doctrine: Preventive Strike Tradition and Iran’s Nuclear Pursuits The Begin Doctrine declares any regional enemy that intends to destroy the State of Israel cannot be permitted to obtain weapons of mass destruction, principally, nuclear weapons. With the emboldened Axis of Resistance, evidenced chiefly by the incursion into Israel by Hamas and potential escalation
Feb. 21, 2024 Ten Propositions Regarding Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence In an era of unbalanced nuclear multipolarity, ten propositions can help guide leaders, strategists, and planners as they establish and execute policy overseeing the most important deterrent effort of mankind, that of nuclear war.
Feb. 21, 2024 Russo-American Strategic Nuclear Arms Control: New START or a New Start? Political and military challenges to New START are formidable, but not insurmountable. A future agreement will have to consider, among other things, China, deterrence surety, and arms race stability.
Feb. 21, 2024 Airpower: A Game Changer in an India-China Limited Conflict Six decades of the India-China adversarial relationship have not seen an offensive use of airpower. Yet the increasingly robust military posture of both nations invites scrutiny of India’s airpower deficits.
Feb. 21, 2024 A Commercial Space Security Dilemma?: The Dynamics of Commercial Competition in Space Global reliance on commercial space companies has created a commercial space security dilemma, focused on the corporations themselves, with implications for the international commercial space market and for space-faring and aspiring space-faring nations alike.
Feb. 21, 2024 Moral Injury to the State: US Security Policy and the Return to Great Power Competition America’s recent return to great power competition reflects a possible experience of moral injury by the state. Acknowledging this and its attendant effects is critical as the US develops its foreign policy vis a vis China.
Feb. 21, 2024 Integrated Emotional Manipulation: Implications of Contemporary Emotion Regulation Science Kinetic and information operations constitute different emotion regulation mechanisms, resulting in challenges when integrating such operations. The emotion regulation perspective informs the practice of integrating these operations to effectively manipulation the emotions of the targeted audience.