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Securing the Pacific Skies: The Imperative for Expanding Japan’s Fifth-Generation Capacity (English Version)

Japanese Version Available Here

Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.), Douglas Birkey, and Heather Penney.

December 2019

Moving Toward the Air Force We Need? Assessing Air Force Budget Trends

Col Mark Gunzinger, USAF (Ret), and Col Carl Rehberg, USAF (Ret)

December 2019

Restoring America's Military Competitiveness: Mosaic Warfare

Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret), and Heather Penney, with Maj Gen Larry Stutzriem, USAF (Ret), and Mark Gunzinger

September 2019

Countering Mobile Missiles: Hold Cycle at Risk

Col Herbert C. Kemp, USAF (Ret), PhD

September 2019

Aerospace Dialogue

Lt. Gen. David Deptula and Hugh Hewitt

February 2020

Lt. Gen. David Deptula joins Hugh Hewitt talking Great Power Competition
January 2020

Pentagon deploying an additional 3,000 troops to the Middle East amid rising tension with Iran

January 2020

To Deter War With Iran, U.S. Should Use Its Asymmetric Edge: Air Power

January 2020

Pass-Through Programs Mask Air Force Budget Shortfalls

January 2020

Hands Off, Budgeteers! DoD Must Fund Our Small Bomber Fleet

September 2019

Maritime Strike

September 2019

The Mitchell Forum

The Forum flagship short paper series is where we publish authors with new, innovative, and thought provoking writing on current and emerging policy issues pertaining to national defense and aerospace power.

No. 27: Countering Mobile Missles: Holding the Entire Launch Cycle at Risk

By Col Herbert C. Kemp, USAF (Ret), PhD

No. 26: Systems of Systems: What, Exactly, is an Integrated Air Defense System?

By Maj Peter W. Mattes, USAF

No. 25: Updating the Laws of War for the 21st Century: Time to Reconsider, and Ban, Modern Nation-Killing Acts

By Maj David Stuckenberg and Lt Col Peter Garretson, USAF

No. 24: Building a Fifth-Generation Coalition: Advancing Allied F-35 Interoperability

By Maj Luke J. Harris and Col Max M. Marosko, III, USAF

No. 23: The US Air Force and Army in the Korean War: How Army Decisions Limited Airpower's Effectiveness

By Lt Col Price T. Bingham, USAF (Ret.)

No. 22: Access, Control, Exploit: Defining Multi-Domain Operations

By Lt Col Cory S. Hollon, USAF