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Mitchell Institute Releases New Forum Paper- The Airpower Edge: Revolutionizing How the US Defeats Conventional Armies

ARLINGTON, Va (November 9, 2017) — The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies is pleased to announce the sixteenth entry in its Mitchell Forum paper series, The Airpower Edge: Revolutionizing How the US Defeats Conventional Armies, by Lt Col Price Bingham, USAF (Ret.), which looks at how technology, capability, and doctrine, if exploited effectively, could help solidify American dominance over the conventional armies of future adversaries. Bingham, who served three tours of duty in Southeast Asia before

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Full Spectrum Close Air Support for the 21st Century: Leveraging Air Operations with Ground Forces

The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies is pleased to announce the release of its newest Policy Paper, Full Spectrum Close Air Support for the 21st Century: Leveraging Air Operations with Ground Forces, by Lt Col Michael Buck, USAF (Ret.). A non-resident senior visiting fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Buck is a retired F-15C Eagle squadron commander, and command pilot with more than 5,000 flight hours. He has experience flying both the F-16

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Mitchell Institute Releases New Policy Paper: Close Air Support for the 21st Century

ARLINGTON, Va (October 18, 2017) —The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies is pleased to announce the release of its newest Policy Paper, Full Spectrum Close Air Support for the 21st Century: Leveraging Air Operations with Ground Forces, by Lt Col Michael Buck, USAF (Ret.). A non-resident senior visiting fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Buck is a retired F-15C Eagle squadron commander, and command pilot with more than 5,000 flight hours. He has experience flying

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Beyond the Iron Triad: The Future of Airborne C2ISR

Today, the US Air Force’s “Big Wing” C2 and ISR aircraft provide critical situational awareness of air and surface activity, as well as adversary intentions across the spectrum of conflict. The three in-demand assets that make up what is known as the “Iron Triad” are the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS), and the RC-135V/W Rivet Joint electronic and signals intelligence gathering aircraft.

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Mitchell Institute Releases New Study: Beyond the Iron Triad

ARLINGTON, Va (September 18, 2017) —The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies is pleased to announce the release of its latest research study, Beyond the Iron Triad: The Future of Airborne C2ISR by Col Matt Hurley, USAF (Ret.). Hurley, a Senior Fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, is a retired career intelligence officer who completed a wide variety of assignments during his active duty service, and has written extensively on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance topics as

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The Cyber Edge: Posturing the US Air Force for the Information Age

The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies is pleased to release the fifteenth entry in its Mitchell Forum paper series, The Cyber Edge: Posturing the US Air Force for the Information Age, by Lt Gen William Bender, USAF (Ret.). Bender, who served as the US Air Force’s chief information officer from 2014 until his retirement this August, writes that the Air Force is undoubtedly the world’s greatest industrial age air arm, but technological advances are driving

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