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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.