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  Letter from the Editor
  Æther Editor

  Letter from the Æther Editor

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  Ten Propositions Regarding Great Power Politics
  Lt Gen B. Chance Saltzman, USSF, James Wood Forsyth Jr., and J. Wesley Hutto

  The global power distribution is changing; China and Russia pose the biggest security challenges to the US. After a 30-year hiatus, great power politics are back and with them, conflict and perhaps great power war. Given the stakes, the article offers 10 propositions.

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  NATO at 70: Peace in a Changing Security Environment
  Ginta T. Palubinskas

  Europe is fragmented, Russia has expanded, and the US has waffled in its stewardship of the liberal order. Long-standing Alliance relationships have been questioned, yet NATO remains the best way to keep the peace in a changing security environment.

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  US Conventional Deterrence and Taiwan’s Independence: Necessary Investments
  Mackenzie Eaglen and John Ferrari

  The advantages of the US military across the spectrum of Taiwan contingencies are quickly disappearing. The Department of Defense—the services and the Joint force—must invest in conventional capabilities that would provide an edge in these conflict scenarios.

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  Nuclear Targeting Methods and Modern Deterrence
  Benjamin Jamison

  Counterforce targeting requires modification. Tailored targeting matches adversary vulnerabilities and American political objectives to produce unique targeting solutions. These solutions for various contingencies create a continuum of effective deterrent options.

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  Nuclear Modernization and the Sentinel ICBM
  Stephen Cimbala and Adam Lowther

  An analysis of US nuclear force structure reveals the necessity of modernizing the ground-based, submarine, and bomber legs of the nuclear triad. The US must exceed the nuclear capabilities and modernization efforts of its adversaries, including modernizing an aging ICBM fleet.

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  Multi-Actor Deterrence: Defining the Concept
  

  US strategies and plans must work within a complex scenario that demands a multi-actor deterrence strategy. This strategy is necessary to contend with a security environment that features nuclear proliferation, cyber and space threats, and regional and hybrid conflicts.

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  Not Cyberwar, but Cyberbalance
  David Benson

  Most cyberattacks are attempts to alter the balance of power. States can affect the balance of power by decreasing their competitors power or “handicapping.” The internet’s decreased costs and global scope have moved handicapping to a central role in international relations.

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  Book Reviews
  

  Book Review highlights in Æther: A Journal of Strategic Airpower & Spacepower Volume 1 Issue 2. 

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