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  • Implementing New Airpower Concepts: Insights from Agile Combat Employment

    This paper examines a multiyear Headquarters Air Force effort to develop, implement, and institutionalize Agile Combat Employment (ACE) across major commands and subordinate units. Focused on dispersed aircraft operations with allies and partners, the initiative addressed doctrine, organization,

  • Case Studies of Pacific Island Battles in World War II

    This study draws strategic lessons from World War II to assess the impli­cations of a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan. It begins by recalling how the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan reshaped the global order, emphasizing the scale and complexity of Pacific amphibious

  • Assuring Allies and Partners: The Utility of Ballistic Missile Defense

    The contemporary multipolar environment heightens threats from nuclear‑armed states such as Russia, China, and North Korea, raising doubts about US resolve in extended deterrence. Legal and policy constraints prevent Washington from transferring nuclear weapons and require reducing their role in

  • The Future of Air and Space Power: Intersections of Theory and Technology

    In 2021, the U.S. Air Command and Staff College’s futurist-leaning commandant issued a research call to pursue the following question: how much would cyber, nanotechnology, hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, remotely piloted aircraft, and other technologies impact air and spacepower

  • Get Back Up: Lessons in Servant Leadership

    What makes a true servant leader?  In this inspiring book, Air Force Academy classmates Heather Wilson and David Goldfein share four decades of lessons from the marble halls of the Capitol to the sands of the Middle East with humor and humility. Dave, a four-star general and former Chief of


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