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March 26, 2021
AI-Enabled War-in-the-Air

It is a time of rapid disruptive technological change and none more so than in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). While developed by and for the commercial sector, AI’s apparent potential for military use is now pushing armed forces globally to begin experimenting with embryonic AI-enabled
March 18, 2021
Organizational Innovation to Achieve JADC2

The US military is banking on technological solutions to usher in the future of effective military command and control in a joint and all-domain combat environment. While much has been written about the Air Force’s technical development of the advanced battle management system (ABMS), given the
March 9, 2021
Better Models for Specialized Career Fields

It’s no secret the Air Force is currently unable to fill cockpits for its aircraft due to a pilot shortage.1 Even with COVID-19 increasing retention from 46 percent of pilots to 51 percent, the service is still 2,000 pilots short, with no end in sight.2 The Air Force is attempting to fill the
March 5, 2021
Contingency Basing for Great Powers Competition

This Air University Advanced Research paper focuses on applying the new context created from Great Powers Competition to military contingency basing. The broad scope of this paper relates the emerging concepts of adaptive operations and Agile Combat Employment (ACE) to the challenge of basing
Sept. 29, 2020
Your Stance against Child Sex Trafficking Is Threatening the National Security of the United States

The authors describe “narrative warfare” and just how difficult it can be to combat. While the concept of creating, influencing, or spreading narratives with specific objectives is not new, interest in the practice has grown substantially with the rise of social media and online communication.
Sept. 29, 2020
Book Review: Space Warfare in the 21st Century: Arming the Heavens

Author: Joan Johnson-FreeseReviewer: Forrest L. Marion, PhD---In Space Warfare in the 21st Century, Joan Johnson-Freese seeks to persuade the incoming Trump administration to change the nation’s space policy that, in her view, has been mostly on the wrong track especially since 2006. The author is a
Sept. 29, 2020
Conflict and Controversy in the Space Domain: Legalities, Lethalities, and Celestial Security

This article assumes the inevitability of space exploration—including celestial body resource exploitation, weapon research and developments, and the human colonization of Mars—in an attempt to answer the question of how important the role is for American leadership of human expansion into space.
Sept. 14, 2020
Miniature Menace: The Threat of Weaponized Drone Use by Violent Non-state Actors

Currently, there are no practical solutions to countering the threat of weaponized drones. While various companies are working on new technology to counter their uses, none have entered full-scale production or are capable of efficiently stopping the attacks. The current strategy to stop terrorists
Sept. 14, 2020
Intelligence at the Edge: Dual Qualify Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Officers as Special Warfare’s Tactical Air Control Party Officers

ISR operations at the tactical level will require the right experts to adopt at the pace of agile combat development expected to realize the aspirational ABMS. The best way to accomplish this goal is to recruit, assess, select, and train intelligence officers for dual qualification as TACP officers,
Aug. 17, 2020
A War by Words: Language and Cultural Understanding in the Age of Information Warfare

This article analyzes the historical role of language in China’s interactions with the outside world and the role language plays in modern US–China competition. It explains how the Air Force can use the Language Enabled Airman Program (LEAP) to bolster the ability of the 16th Air Force and Pacific

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AI-Enabled War-in-the-Air

Organizational Innovation to Achieve JADC2

Better Models for Specialized Career Fields

Contingency Basing for Great Powers Competition

Your Stance against Child Sex Trafficking Is Threatening the National Security of the United States

Book Review: Space Warfare in the 21st Century: Arming the Heavens

Conflict and Controversy in the Space Domain: Legalities, Lethalities, and Celestial Security

Miniature Menace: The Threat of Weaponized Drone Use by Violent Non-state Actors

Intelligence at the Edge: Dual Qualify Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Officers as Special Warfare’s Tactical Air Control Party Officers

A War by Words: Language and Cultural Understanding in the Age of Information Warfare