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Airpower at Any Scale
General James C. Slife, USAF
The possibilities of small, uncrewed vehicles drive us toward a key question: How can airpower work together with our sister services to achieve victory together?

Contesting the Air Littoral
Kelly A. Grieco and Maximilian K. Bremer
The US Air Force should drive a reinvention of airpower concepts, including that of air superiority, as well as the close air mission, to fulfill its purpose and role as master of the air domain.

Arming for the Air Littoral: The Defense Industrial Base and Future Air Warfare
Jennifer Kavanagh
To effectively contest the air littoral, the US Air Force must focus on capabilities, not programs, invest in scaling cutting-edge technologies, and develop a workforce that continuously upgrades the subdomain’s systems and software.

Beyond Air Superiority: The Growing Air Littoral and 21st Century Airpower
Michael P. Kreuzer
Airmen today must see airpower as neither inherently offensive nor defensive, not contingent on first gaining air superiority, and neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for success in modern military operations.

The Air-Ground Littoral and Great Power Conflict
David M. Giffen
The Army should be the air-ground littoral owner, and the battlespace should be qualified as an extension of the ground domain, providing necessary flexibility to the land component commander.

Liminality: Opportunities in the Transition Space of the Air Littoral
Branden W. Gulick
Irregular warfare theory and systems thinking connect disparate fields to demonstrate how the Air Force can operate and outmaneuver adversaries in the air littoral in what is ultimately a cognitive fight.