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  • Learning Disabilities in the U.S. Air Force: Becoming a More Inclusive Force

    The U.S. Air Force is a dynamic organization which is constantly adapting for the betterment of its service members. For example, in recent years, there have been intentional shifts in the way the U.S. Air Force approaches physical testing standards in order to accommodate a more inclusive force. As

  • Egypt’s Bread of Life: The Power of Food in Government

    In response to rioting peasants outside the palace demanding bread, French queen Marie-Antoinette was famously quoted as saying “let them eat cake.” Whether or not this is quote is historically accurate or not, it reflects a reality that has been with governments as long as they have existed:

  • Implications Of Context In Understanding China’s “Mask Diplomacy”

    Since the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, 2020 China has been engaging in a foreign policy initiative. It has been labeled “Mask Diplomacy, a term that can be employed to describe its particular style of soft (e.g. cultural, symbolic, and discursive) and sharp (e.g. dispatched

  • The New Containment

    In 1947, George F. Kennan famously outlined in the pages of Foreign Affairs what became the “containment strategy.” Kennan’s argument, that the West and its allies must confront aggressive Soviet expansion anywhere, set the stage for much of America’s foreign policy throughout the Cold War,

  • Command and Control Terms of Reference

    Article updated on 16 August 2022. IntroductionThere’s never been a better time to be in the Command and Control (C2) business.  The Joint Staff is investing heavily in the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) program, which is designed to accelerate commanders’ decision cycles and close

  • Decision Advantage in Competition

    If decision advantage in conflict is closing our kill chains, then decision advantage in competition is keeping adversary kill chains open. In the 1950s, Col John Boyd embodied the concept of a decision cycle in conflict with his theory of the “OODA Loop.” He believed that the orient phase was key

  • Environmental Scanning: A Strategists Competency

    “Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.”—Herman Kahn, Futurist, Founder of the Hudson Institute IntroductionThankfully, no country has detonated an atomic or thermonuclear weapon since World War


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