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May 19, 2022
Posturing Against the Unknown: Mitigating Black Swan Events in the Indo-Pacific

Captain Kyle R. SchusterBlack swan occurrences can have dire consequences, particularly in near-peer military operations. As the United States engages in its Great Power Competition against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in an area of responsibility such as the Indo-Pacific, one can only
May 19, 2022
Artificial Intelligence: Air Force Unprepared for 2025 Recommendation

Captain Christopher D. KlareThe National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (AI) recommended the Department of Defense (DoD) be AI-ready by 2025 in their Final Report to Congress in January of 2021. This recommendation stems from an undeclared AI arms race between United States’
March 25, 2022
War of Words: Understanding and Defending Against Chinese Disinformation Campaigns

Captain Gregory RepkaChina is slowly gripping the world in a self shaped rhetoric, one that favors China and diminishes the rest. The methodical expansions of these influence capabilities raises alarms, they gain more control everyday, and current defenses are not adequate to combat this control.
March 25, 2022
Utilizing Lessons Learned from SOF ISR TTPs in the Global War on Terror for a Near-Peer Conflict

Captain Conrad LutzAs the United States (US) military shifts it’s focus away from counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism and towards near-peer competition, a new problem-set presents itself in terms of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) utilization. Over the past decade, US
March 25, 2022
Same Great Power Competition: New Reactions

Captain Isabelle PerryThe United States faces a complex and rapidly advancing international climate in which it may no longer be the most powerful contender in the great power competition. Nations like China and Russia seek to displace democratic governments in favor of their own authoritarian
March 25, 2022
Information Warfare: The Art of Operational Planning

Captain Gabrielle M. NesburgDescribed as, “The employment of military capabilities in and through the information environment to deliberately affect adversary human and system behavior,” Information Warfare presents an area in which the United States Air Force must invest to win future
March 25, 2022
China's Semiconductor Economic Statecraft

Captain Alex CordellChina’s investments into supercomputing and semiconductor technologies have been rapidly advancing, and grossly overshadow similar investments by the United States. These technologies are the gateway to not just the future of warfare, but to the very premise of a modern
March 25, 2022
CCP Considerations in GPC

Captain Curtis ChildersThis paper’s objective is to provide AFCENT with CCP focus areas that are in line with the shift to strategic power competition. The CCP has a growing popularity in the Middle East especially with their Belt Road Initiative which leads to large scale investment in
March 25, 2022
U.S. Strategy Through an Infinite Lens – Reconsidering Russia in the 21st Century

Captain Evan OttesenThe United States faces a myriad of threats in the 21st century. Russia is one of the largest and most dangerous and is desperate to regain a position of power on the world stage. The United States is fully capable of maintaining, and extending, the relative advantages she
Nov. 2, 2021
Air University Advanced Research: Next-Generation ISR Dominance The Case of China and Djibouti

Captain Daniel S. PenixChina has taken aggressive measures to ensure the loyalty of developing nations, especially in Africa, while denying the United States the same. A key nation of interest is the small yet significant Republic of Djibouti. Djibouti is a natural chokepoint of trade between

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