Wild Blue Yonder

May 31, 2021
Israel and the Selling of the F-35 to the UAE

On 20 January 2021, the Trump administration, in one of its last decisions, signed the agreement to sell the F-35 joint strike fighter to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Biden administration suspended this deal in late January 2021, but on 13 April, President Biden approved
May 28, 2021
Technology in Peacekeeping: How Technology Can Make Peacekeeping Better

Some of the issues that make the major powers reluctant to get more involved in peacekeeping missions could be improved with the use of technology. I will discuss several technologies that should be consciously used to improve peacekeeping, including technologies that provide basic needs, mobility,
May 27, 2021
Wild Blue Yonder on the Air - Ep. 2 - Major Tom Clark on Strategic Competition, Air Power and Expeditionary Basing in Africa

Opinions, conclusions, and recommendations expressed or implied within are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Air University, the United States Air Force, the Department of Defense, or any other US government agency.0:00:00.6 Dr. Margaret Sankey: Welcome
May 24, 2021
Russia Conflict: NATO Bureaucracy and Allied Constraints

Putin’s Russia breathed new life in the NATO alliance and encouraged introspection on the part of NATO’s members. This paper investigates the organizational structure of the alliance and whether it advances or hinders its ability to compete and defeat Russia in conflict.
May 10, 2021
Biological Weapons Accountability

AbstractExamining the history of the former Soviet Union’s Biological Weapons program and their relationship with private research institutes that developed potential sources for covert biological weapons developments, one may recognize there is a real potential for an application of these deadly
May 3, 2021
Assessing Russian Cyber Effects

In the context of the National Security Strategy’s conception of “great power competition” (Trump 2017), perhaps no nation-state has been as aggressive within the cyberspace domain as the Russian Federation. Furthermore, following two Russian campaigns to seize portions of Ukraine and Georgia’s
April 27, 2021
Russia’s Implementation of Hybrid Warfare: Estonia ('07), Georgia ('08), Crimea ('14)

Hybrid Warfare: Russian ImplementationHybrid warfare—also partially known as grey zone conflict or low-intensity conflict—is a reality, and the United States (US) military must be ready to confront and deter it from peer-to-peer adversaries.1 The US defines grey zone conflict as actions that seek to
April 23, 2021
Wild Blue Yonder on the Air - Ep. 1 - Dr. David Lorenzo on why and how the United States decides to go to war

Opinions, conclusions, and recommendations expressed or implied within are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Air University, the United States Air Force, the Department of Defense, or any other US government agency.DR. MARGARET SANKEY: Welcome to the
April 21, 2021
Evolving the Command and Control of Airpower

IntroductionThe new Air Force Doctrine Publication (AFDP) 1 formally establishes mission command as the philosophy for the command and control (C2) of airpower, to be implemented through centralized command, distributed control, and decentralized execution.1 It is an evolution of the long-standing
April 13, 2021
The Problem with Three: Great Power Competition Deterrence

Defining the relationship between two entities has provided some useful models. Marriage signifies the communal bond between two people. Newton helped define the gravitational relationship between two bodies. The Cold War brought insight into the working of strategic deterrence between two nuclear