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  • Homeland Defense & Civil Support

    Homeland Defense operations help ensure the integrity and security of the Homeland by detecting, deterring, preventing, or, if necessary, defeating threats and aggression against the United States as early and as far from its borders as possible so as to minimize their effects on US society and

  • Irregular Warfare

    Adaptive adversaries such as terrorists, insurgents, and criminal networks as well as states will increasingly resort to irregular forms of warfare as effective ways to challenge conventional military powers. Advances in technology and other trends in the environment will render such irregular

  • Stability Operations

    If the U.S. military conducts [Stabilization, Security, Transition, and Reconstitution] operations in a country or region where stocks of WMD or [CBRN] materials are present as a legacy from the previous regime, timely elimination of these WMD and CBRN stocks, delivery systems, and possibly

  • Major Combat Operations

    The Joint Force, supported by other instruments of national and multinational power, conducts synergistic, high-tempo actions in multiple domains to shatter the coherence of the adversary's plans and dispositions and render him unable or unwilling to militarily oppose the achievement of U.S.

  • Cooperative Security

    Cooperative Security is defined as the set of continuous, long-term integrated, comprehensive actions among a broad spectrum of U.S. and international governmental and nongovernmental partners that maintains or enhances stability, prevents or mitigates crises, and enables other operations when

  • Deterrence Operations

    Deterrence operations convince adversaries not to take actions that threaten US vital interests by means of decisive influence over their decision-making. Decisive influence is achieved by credibly threatening to deny benefits and/or impose costs, while encouraging restraint by convincing the actor

  • Our Story

    The USAF Counterproliferation Center (CPC) was established in 1998 at the direction of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. Located at Maxwell AFB, this Center capitalizes on the resident expertise of Air University, while extending its reach far beyond - and influences a wide audience of leaders

  • South Korean Efforts to Counter North Korean Aggression

    South Korean Efforts to Counter North Korean Aggression Edited by Dr. James E. Platte and Dr. Todd Robinson, USAF Center for Strategic Deterrence Studies, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL Recent North Korean nuclear aggression has raised debates about how the United