April 3, 2024 Hardwired for Hardware: Congressional Adjustments to the Administration’s Defense Budget Requests, 2016 to 2023 Congress has preferenced programmatic expenditures over personnel and operation and maintenance for the past 8 years. In a time of fiscal austerity, Congress must balance its predilection for hardware with the need to appropriately fund the nonhardware programs and components of the Department.
April 3, 2024 Space and War in Ukraine: Beyond the Satellites International and commercial space information sharing and innovations in terrestrial hardware and software have allowed Ukraine to exceed Russia in the use of space at many levels. The US military can learn lessons from these developments.
April 3, 2024 Asymmetric Warfare in Space: Five Proposals from Chinese Strategic Thought Eastern strategic thinking applied to new challenges posed by the space domain in the development of broader space strategy expands perspectives and improves durability.
April 3, 2024 US Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve: Integrating Commercial Capabilities for a Resilient and Flexible Space Architecture As Congress considers funding the CASR program, it can learn key lessons from the structure and implementation of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet.
April 3, 2024 Offensive Dominance in Space The international military space domain characterized by advancing space mobility and logistics is becoming offensively dominant. This poses security dilemma challenges for the US Space Force in its pursuit of competitive endurance.
April 3, 2024 Lethal Targeting through US Airpower: A Consequentialism Perspective A consequentialist approach provides a model that can help policymakers in assessing proportional good, aiding ethical decision-making in lethal targeting/targeted killing.
Feb. 21, 2024 From the Editor Æther: A Journal of Strategic Airpower & Spacepower Winter 2023 Editor Letter