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Ursa Major tests liquid hypersonic engine, drawing combatant command and PEO interest

The U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command will be gearing up to demonstrate a prototype of its Joint Fires Network later this year, providing key data for an operational instantiation of the Pentagon’s top priority to better connect its systems and improve decision-making. The Joint Fires Network is a prototyping effort that addresses the immediate needs of combatant commands while serving as a pathfinder for the broader Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJAD2) effort, which envisions how systems across the entire battlespace from all services and key international partners could be more effectively and holistically networked to provide the right data to commanders, faster. https://lnkd.in/dy2DcDRr

Hot off the presses! This quarter's Joint Forces Quarterly features U.S. Strategic Command. I was excited to lead this project for the command for the last year and write one of the command's articles, called "Preventing the Nuclear Jungle: Extended Deterrence, Assurance and Non-Proliferation." My colleagues also wrote on the challenges of the changing security environment for deterrence, how deterrence concepts need to change to adapt to those changes, and how to think through a future force posture. Plus, there are some pretty badass pictures of the strategic force and warfighters! https://lnkd.in/giYnewmp

Is ADEN DUALE drunk with power? See how he is being guarded bt elite commandos - https://lnkd.in/dFfXN3hV

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𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨, 𝙍𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚…𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙞𝙧 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚 & 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚 Secretary Kendall, along with other Air Force and Space Force leaders, rolled out 24 sweeping changes to the services’ organization, manning, readiness, and weapons development. Representatives changes include: · Reorienting major Air Force commands to focus on combat readiness, peeling off their requirements and weapons development functions and consolidating those into a new Integrated Capabilities Command. · Air Force Materiel Command will be reorganized and structured as well, include four new centers focused on Information Dominance, Nuclear Systems, Air Dominance, and Integration Development · Cyber and electronic warfare will be elevated—what is today’s 16th Air Force, the information warfare arm of Air Combat Command, will be elevated to Air Forces Cyber, reporting directly to the Chief and Secretary with responsibility for operational cyber, information, and electronic warfare. · Operational Air Force wings will be restructured as “units of action,” with each designated as either a Deployable Combat Wing, an In-Place Combat Wing, or a Combat Generation Wing. · Space Force will stand up new Space Force Combat Squadrons as its units of action, supporting U.S. Space Command on a rotational basis. · Air Education and Training Command will be reborn as Airman Development Command · The concept of “Multi-Capable Airmen” will be formalized as “Mission-Ready Airmen,” with new skills taught at every level in the training pipeline · The Air Force will create a new Warrant Officer track for highly skilled IT and cyber talent, enabling those Airmen to not only be paid competitively, but to choose a career path that enables them to focus exclusively on their specialties The entire article can be viewed at https://lnkd.in/epWitiFg. 𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘱𝘴://𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴.𝘤𝘰𝘮/𝘣𝘪𝘨-𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴-𝘢𝘪𝘳-𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦-𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦-𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦/ Aꜱ Bᴏʙ Dʏʟᴀɴ ꜱᴀɴɢ ɪɴ 1964...Tʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ, Tʜᴇʏ Aʀᴇ ᴀ-Cʜᴀɴɢɪɴ'! Air & Space Forces Association, Wright-Memorial Chapter (212) United States Air Force Air Force Materiel Command Air & Space Forces Association

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“Command structures, authorities, and protocols should be built for the worst-case environment for exercising command over fielded forces.” - ADM(ret) Scott Swift. No network or comms channel is robust enough to guarantee crisis transmission of commander’s intent; the routine exercise of mission command and blunt assesment of subordinate commander’s movement, maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, and protection is essential for the inevitable moment that independent action becomes necessary on the high seas.

Sharing as OEs are critical to planning and strategy.

The 88th Air Wing oversees security and infrastructure for one of the largest AFBs in the country, home to 115 missions, 30k personnel, and 18.9 million square miles of airfield. On Friday, December 29th, at Wright-Patterson AFB, 88th Air Wing Commander Col. Christopher B. Meeker was relieved of command by Lt. Gen. Donna D. Shipton, with a “loss of confidence in his ability to lead” cited as the cause. A local newspaper described the high-profile dismissal as “very unusual”, but was it really? Further details haven’t been disclosed, but the non-specific “loss of confidence” is often a coded way to characterize personal and behavioral issues, as it was in the cases of: -Jan 2020, Maj. Gen. William T. Cooley was relieved of command of the Air Force Research Laboratory after allegations of a sexual assault on his brother’s wife -March 2023, 6 Air Force officers in charge of logistics at a North Dakota nuclear missile site were relieved of command for loss of confidence after “non-compliant vehicle and safety inspections”. -May 2023, 19th Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Phillip A. Stewart was charged with sexual assault, dereliction of duty, and other crimes under the UCMJ. Some questions to consider: -Are these toxic behaviors prevalent throughout military (and by extension, all) command structures? -Are the rates of these incidents going up, or is visibility and awareness simply much greater than it was in the past? -As nearly all branches continue to miss recruiting goals, do these high-profile derelictions of duty speak to systemic dysfunction? -As a veteran, do you feel the UCMJ is generally applied equally and fairly?