Æther Journal of Strategy and Power

March 1, 2022
Hammer and Anvil: Coercing Rival States, Defeating Terrorist Groups, and Bombing to Win

The power of airpower lies in its supreme ability to match the use of force to decisive weaknesses in an opponent’s military strategy. This power and turns, fundamentally, on understanding the enemy.
March 1, 2022
Winning a Peer War

Attaining victory in a near-term peer war would pose extreme challenges and significant costs. But if such a conflict is still a decade away, America’s survival, and that of the West writ large, demands we find solutions now that will ensure victory.
March 1, 2022
Rethinking “Airpower versus Asymmetric Enemies”

Effective airpower supports positive political goals and minimizes the risk of achieving the negative ones. The framework offers no guarantee of success or failure, but it does charge leaders who might apply airpower to think carefully before making that decision.
March 1, 2022
Air Power 2010–2020: From Helmand to Hypersonics

Air power employment over the last decade yields lessons from challenging operations in complex environments. The West and its allies are at an inflection point in the employment and utility of air and space power no longer owning or dictating all the terms of the debate.