March 18, 2021 Organizational Innovation to Achieve JADC2 The US military is banking on technological solutions to usher in the future of effective military command and control in a joint and all-domain combat environment. While much has been written about the Air Force’s technical development of the advanced battle management system (ABMS), given the
March 12, 2021 China in Search of AI Supremacy In order to totally understand the need of the United States to maintain and compete for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy over our near peer threat, China, we must first look at the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) militarily goals and what makes them unique in their pursuit. According to the
March 11, 2021 Wild Blue Yonder Article Submission Guidelines Wild Blue Yonder is an online, moderated and professionally reviewed blog representing Air University and Air University Press. Because Air University develops Airmen of all ranks and across the officer and enlisted Total Force, we encourage articles and deal with all aspects of the DAF
March 9, 2021 Better Models for Specialized Career Fields It’s no secret the Air Force is currently unable to fill cockpits for its aircraft due to a pilot shortage.1 Even with COVID-19 increasing retention from 46 percent of pilots to 51 percent, the service is still 2,000 pilots short, with no end in sight.2 The Air Force is attempting to fill the
March 5, 2021 Contingency Basing for Great Powers Competition This Air University Advanced Research paper focuses on applying the new context created from Great Powers Competition to military contingency basing. The broad scope of this paper relates the emerging concepts of adaptive operations and Agile Combat Employment (ACE) to the challenge of basing
Feb. 19, 2021 Ruthless Competition: What the Pursuit of a PlayStation 5 Teaches about Future Conflicts The author brings the personal experience of hectic online holiday shopping to understand the effect of strategies used in attacks against cybersecurity. Comparisons are drawn between hackers bypassing US government security and online bot mechanics used to outspeed online store reservations.
Sept. 29, 2020 Book Review: Space Warfare in the 21st Century: Arming the Heavens Author: Joan Johnson-FreeseReviewer: Forrest L. Marion, PhD---In Space Warfare in the 21st Century, Joan Johnson-Freese seeks to persuade the incoming Trump administration to change the nation’s space policy that, in her view, has been mostly on the wrong track especially since 2006. The author is a
Sept. 29, 2020 Conflict and Controversy in the Space Domain: Legalities, Lethalities, and Celestial Security This article assumes the inevitability of space exploration—including celestial body resource exploitation, weapon research and developments, and the human colonization of Mars—in an attempt to answer the question of how important the role is for American leadership of human expansion into space.
Sept. 14, 2020 Moving the “Big Rock”: Inculcating Critical Thinking in the Air Force’s Project Warrior When Gen David L. Goldfein became the chief of staff of the Air Force (CSAF) in 2016, he sought to revitalize the Air Force. He also narrowed in on the squadron as the “core fighting unit” by which Airmen most strongly identified with the service’s “culture and
Aug. 31, 2020 You Will Be Annihilated This article from the Air Command and Staff College elective Sci-fi as Strategy presents a story of intergalactic war, delving into matters of artificial intelligence, groupthink, coalition building, and host of other relevant issues.