Star Wars Strikes Back: Return of Space-Based Missile Defense
Christopher BuckleyDisruptive Technology, StrategyComments are off for this post
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With North Korean missiles on everyone’s mind, it’s no wonder Americans and their elected representatives are searching for a solution.  While Secretary Mattis has (so far) been successful in convincing a public and a Congress that any military solution to North Korea is messy at best, every time Kim tries something else, we publicly go […]

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Too Many Dollars, Not Enough Sense: Acquisition Case Studies (PART 2)
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Tactical Fighter Experimental The Air Force and the Department of Defense were created amid a time of massive military drawdowns and shrinking budgets. However, nuclear weapons, nuclear strategy, and their associated systems were impervious to this drawdown. In the 1950s and 1960s, nuclear strategy permeated every area of the military, as the services must train, […]

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Too Many Dollars, Not Enough Sense: Acquisition Case Studies (PART 1)
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“Seldom in the course of military development have opinions been so conflicting as in the acquisition of this revolutionary aircraft.”[1] This is a quote from Congress. If you have been following big dollar military acquisition programs, particularly the F‑35, this quote should not surprise you. F‑35 has been controversial to say the least. There have […]

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An Ounce of Prevention: Counter-Proliferation vs. Disarmament and what it means for North Korea
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The primary focus at Air Power Strategy for 2017 will be disruptive technology. This tech is the kind that demolishes the status quo and reduces equilibrium to rubble. Disruptive tech forces all players to reassess their assumptions. No technology has been more disruptive to strategy than nuclear weapons. With North Korea (supposedly) close to fielding […]

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Cheap Space Launch Optional: The Truth about Cheap Rockets for the USAF
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In a recent article at DoD Buzz, Oriana Pawlyk asked: “Why Doesn’t the Air Force Use Cheap, Re-Usable Rockets?”[1] Air Power Strategy even re-tweeted her article because it is a spectacular question, one that requires more analysis. It is debatable whether cheap access to space is a good thing. After considering the history, budget, policy […]

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Evolutionary Revolutions
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The Battle of Cambrai took place in 1917. Trench warfare, where victory was measured in thousands of lives and inches of mud, had gone on for three years. It was a world war of attrition, and it was all the world knew. Defenses were too good; there was no way to break through until the […]

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Disruptive Technology
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Technology is not strategy. Rather, it is subordinate to strategy and policy. Strategic problems should be solved by policy or strategy, not technology. Technology can shape strategy and doctrine by enabling or defeating capabilities not previously capable. But technology sometimes develops against the grain of the bureaucracy. Disruptive technologies are those that challenge the established […]

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