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  • Capitalizing on Non-Commissioned Officers' Advanced Degrees

    How can the SOF enterprise and its service components develop a process to effectively align the specialized skills, including graduate degrees, of noncommissioned officers with appropriate position roles to maximize their contributions?

  • USSOCOM Use of Gaming for Information Advantage

    How can serious gaming be effectively designed, implemented, and integrated into existing SOF training programs to enhance personnel's information advantage skills, and what key metrics should be used to evaluate its effectiveness within USSOCOM?

  • Priority of Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat

    What priority should a Hard and Deeply Buried Target (HDBT) defeat capability take within U.S. nuclear strategy, considering its influence on the decision calculus of various potential adversaries and its overall role in deterrence and employment?

  • Human/Technology Interface

    How can SOF effectively manage the evolving human-technology interface, addressing critical issues of trust, control, and potential human-machine symbiosis to enhance operator capabilities while considering the profound ethical and operational implications?

  • Technological Undermatch

    How can SOF adapt its operational strategies and leverage non-technological competitive advantages to succeed in an environment where an adversary may have technological parity or superiority, thus challenging the traditional "American way of war"?

  • PRC's "Military Civil Fusion" Strategy

    How does the People's Republic of China's "Military-Civil Fusion" strategy specifically support the PLA's operations and advancements in the aerospace domains?

  • Chinese Leadership Tasking Cyber-Actors

    How does the CCP/PLA senior leadership task its various cyber actors, including both government and proxy forces, to achieve its strategic objectives?

  • Nuclear Deterrence Education

    How can the Air Force and DoD create a more effective educational framework to comprehensively inform personnel at all levels, particularly General Officers, on the complexities of the nuclear enterprise, including requirements, mission sets, and operational processes?

  • China's Critical Cyber Vulnerabilities

    What are the critical cyber vulnerabilities and weaknesses of the CCP/PLA? What are critical weaknesses and vulnerabilities in Chinese military networks? (US Cyber Command)