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June 22, 2020
Island Hopping—Feet Dry!: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Indications and Warning in Austere Environments

To increase technology’s capabilities and how it can be used requires innovation. Identifying how to fit emerging technology into the mission construct can be viewed as limiting; however, there has to be a starting point. The fictional vignette illustrates how such innovation might play out in
June 8, 2020
The Case for Missile Defense and an Efficient Defense of the US Homeland

In May 2019, the Pentagon first announced a pause on the years-long troubled efforts to redesign the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system’s interceptors. Since 2004, the GMD system’s mission is to defend the United States from ballistic missile
May 11, 2020
What Exactly is Venture Capital, and What Does It Have to Do with the Air Force?

The initial cohort of AFVentures fellows recently finished their six-week immersion in Silicon Valley. This article outlines that experience and the lessons applicable to the Air Force writ large.
April 27, 2020
Reorganizing Missile Security at Malmstrom AFB: 341st Security Forces Group and the Missile Security Operating Concept

From August 2017 through January 2019, the 341st Security Forces Group (341st SFG) planned and executed an internal reorganization of its missile security forces called the Missile Security Operating Concept (MSOC). By standing up the 841st Missile Security Forces Squadron (841st MSFS) and creating
April 13, 2020
Wrong Time to Hack: How Deterrence Theory Informs Policy Options in a Time of COVID-19

This article begins by highlighting the risks to the Internet, then presents a summary of deterrence theory to conceptualize a range of options available for senior leaders. A review of the research on the Internet, deterrence theory, national authorities, and limited criminal justice theory
April 13, 2020
The Interminable Crusade: A New Framework for US Counterterrorism Strategy

Terrorism is a sophisticated rhetorical act that is inherently abstract in nature; the attack itself is not the objective, and the victims are not the targets. A failure to adequately understand and address the discursive aspects of the current terrorist threat has hampered US policy. To correct
March 30, 2020
The Strategy Web: A New Framework for Analyzing Military Strategy

Warfare is a complex endeavor, and those tasked with planning and implementing military strategy must be equipped with a robust framework capable of incorporating theory, historical evidence, and truths. It is necessary to cultivate an entirely new framework for representing and analyzing strategy.
March 16, 2020
Multi-Domain Operations: Bridging the Gaps for Dominance

This article will take a quick look at how warfare has evolved and why we have headed toward the multi-domain operations (MDO) doctrine. Additionally, the article provides a framework as a rudimentary way to understand basic MDO concepts that can be utilized to create offensive and defensive MDO
March 2, 2020
Biohazard: A Look at China’s Biological Capabilities and the Recent Coronavirus Outbreak

Many have speculated that the coronavirus outbreak that begin in China in 2019 could have been an unintentional consequence of alleged bioweapon research in Wuhan. This article will look into the validity of such claims, the current coronavirus situation, China’s current alleged biowarfare
Feb. 17, 2020
Afghanistan Intelligence War

A comparison between the way the pro-Soviet intelligence agencies carried out strategic interference against the political system in the past and the way the post-2001 pro-Western agencies are interfacing with the political process is important for understanding Afghan politics today. In some ways,

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Island Hopping—Feet Dry!: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Indications and Warning in Austere Environments

The Case for Missile Defense and an Efficient Defense of the US Homeland

What Exactly is Venture Capital, and What Does It Have to Do with the Air Force?

Reorganizing Missile Security at Malmstrom AFB: 341st Security Forces Group and the Missile Security Operating Concept

Wrong Time to Hack: How Deterrence Theory Informs Policy Options in a Time of COVID-19

The Interminable Crusade: A New Framework for US Counterterrorism Strategy

The Strategy Web: A New Framework for Analyzing Military Strategy

Multi-Domain Operations: Bridging the Gaps for Dominance

Biohazard: A Look at China’s Biological Capabilities and the Recent Coronavirus Outbreak

Afghanistan Intelligence War