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  • Mission Defense Team Training Gap Analysis

    With the rapid advancement of technology, Air Force missions are becoming increasingly dependent on cyberspace. These dependencies on networks and computers open up new attack vectors that adversaries can exploit to put our missions at risk. Aware of this threat, US Cyber Command created defensive

  • William Mitchell: An Amazing, Yet Flawed Air Theorist

    Lieutenant Colonel William Mitchell was a visionary air theorist in the early twentieth century whose ideas established the foundational aspects of American military airpower, especially during wartime. Many of his postulations guided the conduct of air campaigns during the conventional wars of last

  • Kant in the Age of Thucydides

    For the past generation, one of the key ideas of International Relations (IR) theory has been that of “Kantian peace.” Following its introduction by Michael Doyle in 1983, it became an empirical research paradigm intended to explain the relative peace of the modern era as well as the

  • Strategy at Mach 5: Hypersonic Weapons in Chinese Military Strategy

    Hypersonic weapons have become an almost daily topic in the media. It is one of the latest in a long string of ideas that have moved from science fiction to science fact. Several countries, such as the United States, Australia, and India, have active hypersonic research programs. Unfortunately for

  • Command and Control for Agile Combat Employment

    The United States Air Force is using the term agile combat employment (ACE) to describe a way of operating that relies less on large traditional main overseas bases as hubs for projecting combat power and more on launching, recovering, and maintaining aircraft from dispersed forward operating

  • Squadron Commander Selection

    Leadership plays a vital role in the military and mission success. Taking a closer look at who is offered a prestigious opportunity to lead America’s sons and daughters is well worth the resources.


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