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  • Ready to Meet the Moment

    Preparing the Air Force to accelerate change is solidly rooted in the service’s noteworthy history. The next few chapters in the Air Force story will be as challenging as anything we’ve ever done. But change ensures the service remains ready, as always, to meet the moment.

  • A New Kind of War

    Information warfare is not new; what has changed are the tactics our adversaries are using to conduct these operations at scale. We must empower our Airmen and Guardians to recognize and actively combat this threat.

  • 75 Years of Mobility Operations: Evolving for the Next 75

    Tomorrow’s challenges to US national security require an agile US Transportation Command, flexible, fully integrated, and responsive enough to meet the volume and tempo of warfighers’ demands. A renewed emphasis on maneuver will evolve how the concept is applied across domains.

  • After Defeat: A Time to Rebuild

    We lost people, aircraft, a campaign, and prestige, but we did not lose forever. After suffering tremendous moral and physical attrition, it is time to rebuild. We cannot waste this crisis. We must implement the necessary changes to be victorious, next time.

  • Joint Taskforce Quartz: Through an Airpower Lens

    Joint Task Force Quartz provides lessons learned as the Air Force develops new operational concepts. In short, the command relationships must be built upon centralized command, distributed control, and decentralized execution all under the art of mission command.

  • A New Battle Command Architecture for Joint All-Domain Operations

    The Air Force must rapidly evolve beyond centralized combined air operations centers. This new architecture must adapt to ABMS and JADC2 developments, but given their slow evolution, the service must begin changing the architecture for command and control of aerospace forces now.

  • The USAF at 75: Renewing Our Democratic Ethos

    The military plays a role in civics literacy and developing a democratic ethos. The US Air Force must draw upon its heritage, renewing a commitment to a democratic ethos that preferences service members’ obligation to the Oath of Office above partisan or personal interests.

  • Space Is a Warfighting Domain

    The assertion that space is a war-fighting domain has tremendous repercussions for force structure, budget decisions, public and international perceptions, and, on the culture of the newest military service.

  • Accelerate Change: Or Lose The Information War

    The Air Force must accelerate change or lose an information-cyber war that holds at risk American social, economic, and political cohesion. To win, the service must develop and promote strategists to seize opportunities in the cyberspace domain and information environment.