Sept. 12, 2024 Beyond Air Superiority: The Growing Air Littoral and 21st Century Airpower Airmen today must see airpower as neither inherently offensive nor defensive, not contingent on first gaining air superiority, and neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for success in modern military operations.
Sept. 12, 2024 The Air-Ground Littoral and Great Power Conflict The Army should be the air-ground littoral owner, and the battlespace should be qualified as an extension of the ground domain, providing necessary flexibility to the land component commander.
Sept. 12, 2024 Liminality: Opportunities in the Transition Space of the Air Littoral Irregular warfare theory and systems thinking connect disparate fields to demonstrate how the Air Force can operate and outmaneuver adversaries in the air littoral in what is ultimately a cognitive fight.
July 9, 2024 Air Superiority: A Renewed Vision In the sunset of America’s 70+ years of unchallenged air superiority, America and its Allies and partners must adapt and innovate with low-cost/high-yield capabilities.
July 9, 2024 Mineral Supply Chains and Space Assets: Mitigating Manufacturing Dependencies Supply chains for minerals essential to the construction of three key space assets—satellites, direct-ascent antisatellite weapons, and rocket bodies—must be protected.
July 9, 2024 Emerging Laws and Norms for AI Facial Recognition Technology Laws governing the deployment and use of facial-recognition technology vary widely across the globe. The United States and its Allies and partners should establish and promote human-rights-safeguarding norms.
July 9, 2024 Energy Web Dominance: A Proposal for a Fourth Offset Strategy DARPA’s energy web dominance framework provides a novel perspective on the fundamental character of warfare, revealing new opportunities for optimizing military effects delivery leveraging wireless energy distribution technology breakthroughs.
July 9, 2024 Cyber Red Lines: Government Responses to Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure Despite challenges surrounding the term “red line” in the context of gray zone cyber operations, such a threshold must be established to clarify when America will respond to state or nonstate actor cyberattacks.
July 9, 2024 Effective Assurance: A Strategic Imperative A proper understanding of assurance is critical in an age of renewed great power competition, where alliances provide an asymmetric strategic advantage over potential adversaries.