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  • Integrated Defense: Lessons Learned from Joint Base Balad

    Base defense—defending one’s air assets on the ground—is one of the least understood operational aspects of airpower. The current USAF strategy for defending air bases is integrated defense (ID). This study examines the first full implementation of ID in a combat environment in

  • The Asia-Pacific Century

    ​When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published “America’s Pacific Century” in Foreign Policy magazine in November 2011, the administration was clearly indicating to domestic and international audiences that the United States is beginning a pivot toward the Asia-Pacific.

  • A Giant in the Shadows

    This paper examines the military career of Maj Gen Benjamin Foulois. It emphasizes the personal qualities and professional skill that enabled him to rapidly build up and lead the air arm of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) to victory in World War I. While previous academic works have focused

  • Bomber

    Noted historian and retired USAF Col Phillip Meilinger’s Bomber traces the development of Strategic Air Command in parallel with a fledgling independent Air Force amid the drama of the Cold War. This well-documented history captures not only lessons learned in strategy, leadership, and

  • Bureaucracy versus Bioterrorism

    Two things are certain—death and taxes! Or maybe just taxes. Scientists are attempting to cheat death with rapidly progressing technologies capable of constructing and manipulating life synthetically from basic chemical elements. While the advancing rates of capability in computing speed,

  • Toward a Fail-Safe Air Force Culture

    Col Steve Goldfein, commander of the 1st Fighter Wing, summed up his responsibility stating, "In the end, commanders do only two things—provide vision and set the environment. Almost everything you do for the organization falls into one of these categories." Unfortunately, it is

  • Achieving Medical Currency via Selected Staff

    During Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Iraqi Freedom, the Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) contributed to the lowest “died of wounds rate” in the history of warfare (less than 10 percent).1 Cutting-edge medical care on the battlefield and revolutionary methods of transporting

  • Principles of War for Cyberspace

    As the US Air Force develops doctrine, education, and organization for cyberspace, the traditional principles of war must be considered to see how and if they apply to cyberspace, and under what situations, so we can develop a conceptual foundation for effective cyberspace war-fighting doctrine.

  • 2035 Air Dominance Requirements for State-On-State Conflict

    In 2035 some states' integrated air defense systems will be able to find, fix, track, target, and engage our current air dominance aircraft. US operations in this environment may prove costly and threaten heavy aircraft losses. Worse, decisive air operations, the hallmark of US military strategy

  • Logistics Aloft

    Since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom, Department of Defense (DOD) investment in remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) has exploded almost 700 percent to just under $4 billion per year in 2009.1 This expansion was primarily caused by the successful application of RPAs in their role as


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