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Irregular Warfare and the US Air Force: The Way Ahead Divine Victory for Whom? Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War Strategic Airlift Modernization: Analysis of C-5 Modernization and C-17 Acquisition Issues Abolish the Air Force F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues The U.S. Air Force and Stability Operations Transformation U.S. Fixed-Wing Modernization Plans: Near-Term Choices Special Operations Forces Aviation at the Crossroads Incompatible Technologies Weaken Utility of Aerial Spies Divining Victory: Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War Airlift Capabilities for Future U.S. Counterinsurgency Operations F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status and Issues Airborne Laser (ABL): Issues for Congress Divining Victory: Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War Future Need for VTOL/STOL Aircraft Conventional Warheads for Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues for Congress Tactical Aircraft Modernization: Issues for Congress Command in Air War: Centralized Vs. Decentralized Control of Combat Airpower Limitations on the Role of Airpower in Counter-Insurgency The Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration Program Breakthrough Air Force Capabilities Spawned by Basic Research V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft Stealthy Mobility & Support Aircraft for US Special Operations Forces UAVs -- The Next Generation UAVs With Bite U.S. Fighter Modernization Plans: Near-Term Choices Executive Summary V-22 Osprey: Wonder Weapon or Widow Maker? F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status and Issues Lessons Unlearned: The History of Air Power in Unconventional Warfare Dual Role: Strike Fighters Bring Their Own Surveillance to the Battle Small Diameter Bomb Increment I Viper Strike Tactical Aircraft Modernization: Issues for Congress One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: An Analytical Framework for Airpower in Small Wars The Merge: The Air Force's Missing Doctrine: How the U.S. Air Force Ignores Counterinsurgency Army Change, Air Force Change Joint Strike Fighter: DOD Plans to Enter Production Before Testing Demonstrates Acceptable Performance Alternatives for Long-Range Ground-Attack Systems Smack 'em Flattens Targets Issues in Air Force Science and Technology Funding Unmanned Aircraft Systems Roadmap 2005-2030 Air Force Transformation Air Defense Against Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Eyes of the Fighter Growing Pains: Getting Army UAV off the Ground A Review of United States Air Force and Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion Needs Future Air Force Needs for Survivability Air Power in the New Counterinsurgency Era: The Strategic Importance of USAF Advisory and Assistance Missions Study Uncovers Problems with UAVs The First Rule of Modern Warfare: Never Bring a Knife to a Gunfight Unmanned Aircraft Systems: DoD Needs to More Effectively Promote Interoperability and Improve Performance Assessments The QDR & Long-Range Surveillance and Strike Command and Control Arrangements for the Attack of Time Sensitive Targets Will We Have an Unmanned Armada? In Demand Paths to Air Dominance Conventional Warheads for Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues for Congress Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles: Likely Missions and Challenges for the Policy-Relevant Future Tomorrow's Air Warfare: A German Perspective on the Way Ahead F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues Return of the Bomber Barons: The Resurgence of Long-Range Bombardment Aviation for the Early Twenty-first Century UAVs: Improved Strategic and Acquisition Planning Can Help Address Emerging Challenges Effects-Based Airpower for Small Wars: Iraq after Major Combat Air Force Transformation Beyond Close Air Support: Foraging a New Air-Ground Partnership The U.S. Air Force Remotely Piloted Aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Strategic Vision Unmanned Aircraft Systems Roadmap Naval Aviation and Long-Range Strike: Coming Choices Unmanned Aerial Vehicle End-to-End Support Considerations Air Power Against Terror: America's Conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom Transformational Recapitalization Rethinking USAF Aircraft Procurement Philosophies Matching Resources with Requirements: Options for Modernizing the US Air Force The Use of Sustained Coercive Air Power in Humanitarian Interventions Ghosts in the Machine: The Human Link in Precision Strike `Kill Chain' Small Bomb Could Vastly Increase Strike Capability of US Aircraft Uncertainties Remain Concerning the Airborne Laser's Cost and Military Utility Moving Forward on Long Range Strike Time-Critical Targeting: Predictive versus Reactionary Methods Powering the Future: Advances in Propulsion Technologies Provide a Capability Road Map for Warfighter Operations Poor Intelligence Hampers Precision Weapon Performance What Should We Bomb? Axiological Targeting and the Abiding Limits of Airpower Theory Ground Moving Target Indicator Radar And the Transformation of US Warfighting Revolution by Adaptation Smarter Bomber Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces : Lessons from Operation Enduring Freedom Evaluation of the National Aerospace Initiative New Horizons for Combat UAVs Precision: The Next Generation Gulf War II: Air and Space Power Led the Way Nerve Centers for Air Warfare Military Has High Hopes For New Eye in the Sky More Bandwidth Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means: Why the Air Force Cannot Utilize the Full Potential of Its Enterprise Information Technology Systems Al Qaeda's Global Insurgency: Airpower in the Battle for Legitimacy Ground-Aided Precision Strike: Heavy Bomber Activity in Operation Enduring Freedom U.S. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Combat, 1991-2003 Paths to Transformation Coercive Airpower in the Global War on Terror: Testing Validity of Courses of Action Close Air Support from Afar Terminate the Hog that Saves the Grunts The Future of Tactical Fighter Aviation The Air Force: Science, Technology, and Transformation How Smart Have Weapons Become?? The Eyes and Ears of War Just-in-Time Targeting Complexity-Based Targeting: New Sciences Provide Effects Strategy, Requirements, and Forces: The Rising Imperative of Air and Space Power The Clash about CAS UAVs: How Revolutionary? Electronic Warfare: Comprehensive Strategy Still Needed for Suppressing Enemy Air Defenses Thinking Effects: Effects Based Methodology for Joint Operations Air Warfare's Holy Grail: An Single Integrated Picture Hitting Home: Coercive Theory, Air Power, and Authoritarian Targets Airpower versus Asymmetric
Enemies: A Framework for Evaluating EAF Support: Getting Lighter, Leaner and More Responsive Legal Implications of the Uninhabited Combat Aerial Vehicle Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles: Dawn of a New Age? De-Ranged Global Power and Air
Mobility for the New Millenium Air Power Targeting Theory: A Key Element in Transformation The Moral Limits of Strategic Attack Fighting with Failures Series: Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operation Allied Force: Why air strikes without decisive maneuver failed in Iraq and Kosovo Dull Drone: Why unmanned US aerial vehicles are a hazard to Afghan civilians Air Warfare GPS: How Vulnerable Is GPS? Enhancing Dynamic Command and Control of Air Operations Against Time Critical Targets Measuring Interdiction Capabilities in the Presence of Anti-Access Strategies Strategic Appraisal: United States Air and Space Power in the 21st Century Innovative Development: Global Hawk and DarkStar-- Their Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration Program Experience, Executive Summary Innovative Development: Global Hawk and DarkStar--HAE UAV ACTD Program Description and Comparative Analysis Precision Engagement at the Strategic Level of War: Guiding Promise or Wishful Thinking Effects-Based Targeting: Another Empty Promise? Joint 'Air Picture' Fractured By Long-Standing Rivalries Seeking Shadows in the Sky: The
Strategy of Air Guerilla Warfare United States Air Force Precision Engagement against Mobile Targets: Is Man In or Out? The Long Search for a Surgical Strike: Precision Munitions and the Revolution in Military Affairs Close Call for Close Air Support? The Myth of Air Power in the Persian Gulf War and the Future of Warfare Air Force Transformation Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer Application of Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles in Future Battles of the Subcontinent Kosovo Targeting-- A Bureaucratic and Legal Nightmare: The Implications for US/Australian Interoperability Bombing Dual-Use Targets: Legal, Ethical, and Doctrinal Perspectives Precision Engagement at the Strategic Level of War: Guiding Promise or Wishful Thinking? Can "Airpower" Counter the Asymmetric Threat?: Factors Influencing the Employment of Air-Power Against International Terrorists Threats Death by a Thousand Cuts: Micro-Air Vehicles (MAV) in the Service of Air Force Missions Global Dynamic Operations Through a Glass, Darkly: Innovation and Transformation in the Twenty-First Century Air Force Air Power versus a Fielded Army: A Construct for Air Operations in the 21st Century New Conventional Weapons, Reducing Reliance on a Nuclear Response toward Aggressors Global Strategic Task Force: A Strategic Renaissance
Global Strike Task Force: A Transforming
Concept, Forged by Experience. Effects Based Operations: Change in the Nature of Warfare Report on: Why and Whither Hypersonics Research in the U.S. Air Force Slumlords: Aerospace Power in Urban Fights Uninhabited Combat Aerial Vehicles: Air Power by the People, For the People, But Not with the People Airpower and the Coercive Use of Force. A 'Crushing' Victory: Fuel-Air Explosives and Grozny 2000 Expeditionary Logistics 2000: Issues and Strategy for the New Millennium Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces:
A Concept for Evolving the Agile Combat Support/Mobility System for
the Future Smart Bombs, Dumb Targeting? Kosovo and the Great Air Power Debate Deliberative Force: A Case Study in Effective Air Campaigning Global Thinking, Global Logistics Control of the Air: The Future of Air Dominance and Offensive
Strike Fire in the City: Airpower in Urban, Smaller-Scale Contingencies Transforming Aerospace Power Implementing Joint Vision 2010: A Revolution in Military Affairs for Strategic Air Campaigns The Future Of Tactical Aviation : A Strategic Perspective Air Force 2025 Final Report Home Page Heart of the Storm: The Genesis of the Air Campaign against Iraq Transforming the United States Air Force Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems
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