In the coming years, the United States’ nuclear arsenal is likely to change in two important ways. First, recent statements by Biden administration officials suggest the United States may expand its ...
Decision superiority — the ability to assimilate, analyze, and act upon information acquired from the battlespace more rapidly than an adversary — has always been crucial. It enabled the Royal Air ...
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy A. George receives a demo of Next-Generation Command-and-Control system capabilities from a 1st Infantry Division officer. (Sgt. Brahim Douglas/U.S. Army) After spending ...
The United Nations rarely moves fast on disarmament. This year, though, it did something unusual. On November 6, the General Assembly’s First Committee, where states debate over questions of ...
Gone are the days of command centers being reliant solely on radios and static maps. Today, AV technology transforms these spaces with dynamic data visualization, seamless communication interfaces and ...
When Russia blew up an old satellite with a new missile on November 15, it created an expanding cloud of debris that will menace the outer space environment for years to come. Hypersonic fragments ...
Space based nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) systems were developed as highly classified and sovereign systems, insulated from external influence and designed to survive in the most ...
Editor’s Note: Bruce Blair passed away in July 2020. His co-authors are grateful to his widow, Sally Blair, for permission to publish this article and list Bruce as a co-author. Imagine a rapidly ...
Networks of manned and unmanned aircraft will command the skies. These teams will be increasingly modular and optimized for counterair, interdiction, and close air support missions. A mix of war games ...