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  • Accelerating Decision-Making Through Human-Machine Teaming

    The Air Force must create new doctrinal mechanisms that support Third Offset technologies. This paper first explores several human- machine teaming frameworks, then advocates for their incorporation into existing doctrinal authorities. It also explores the challenges associated with those changes

  • Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the United States Air Force

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly influencing various aspects of 21st-century life, with the United States Air Force leveraging AI to enhance core missions like air superiority, intelligence, and global strike. While AI offers significant operational advantages, including increased

  • Planning to Fail: Operational Persistence through Mission Command

    As described in AFDP 1-1, the principals of Mission Command should enable a substantial change in the Air Force’s planning and execution at the operation level of war: they should enable continued airpower effects if the Air Operations Center (AOC) disappears tomorrow – because it

  • Organizing for Mission Command

     What's old is new again.Confronted with numerical inferiority, a contested electromagnetic spectrum, and the lack of safe havens, the USAF is returning to an old concept: mission command.[1] This philosophy envisions small units, operating under commander’s intent, that can maneuver and fight more

  • Congruent FMS and 10 USC 333 Strategy for USINDOPACOM

    China is the pacing threat for the United States. While China has the advantage of proximity in the INDOPACOM AOR, they lack the greatest strength the US possesses, willing partners and allies. The United States must listen to our partners and allies in the region and equip and train them with the


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