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.
Aug. 31, 2020 Chasing the Chimera of the Indigenous Jet Fighter: China’s Stealth Fighters and the Lessons of Recent Aviation History China has demonstrated an apparent capability to develop stealth fighters. While Chinese aviation technology should not be underestimated, this essay strikes a cautionary note. Using historical examples from Argentina, Egypt, and India, the author contends that Chinese stealth fighters are being
Aug. 17, 2020 A War by Words: Language and Cultural Understanding in the Age of Information Warfare This article analyzes the historical role of language in China’s interactions with the outside world and the role language plays in modern US–China competition. It explains how the Air Force can use the Language Enabled Airman Program (LEAP) to bolster the ability of the 16th Air Force
Aug. 17, 2020 Airpower in the Twenty-first Century: Swing- and Multi-role versus Single-role Specialist A hundred years after classics like the Vickers Virginia I, the Super Zeppelin L70, or the Etrich Taube, military air assets can be stealth-capable, accelerate far above the velocity of sound, and bear weapons systems reaching over the horizon. Among these technological developments are single-,
Aug. 17, 2020 The Future of China’s Belt and Road Initiative The global COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the export of China’s worst characteristics, while prompting delays and disruptions to BRI construction and investment plans. These delays risk years of planning and hundreds of billions of dollars in PRC economic diplomacy. Quarantine measures are