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Because cyberspace can affect core missions and capabilities, it seems obvious that the Air Force should take steps to establish an organization to address this medium. The details have been difficult to establish, however, because this medium is very different from air and space. The Air Force initially instituted a provisional major command and but has since instead replaced it with a numbered air force, the 24th Air Force, under Space Command. The authors have been involved in efforts to make the missions, tasks, and capabilities of such a command more concrete. Here, they offer observations originally intended for the major command but that apply equally well to the efforts of 24th Air Force: the needs to articulate objectives clearly; establish strategies, missions, and tasks; and develop people capable of ensuring that USAF-specific needs are met. The Air Force must also consider that cyber-related responsibilities spread across the military and other government agencies. But to expand its mission to "fly and fight in cyberspace, " the Air Force should also advance the state of the art in creating effects using cyberspace.

Information warfare --- Cyberspace --- Electronics in military engineering --- Command and control systems --- Security measures --- United States. --- United States. --- United States. --- United States. --- United States. --- Security measures. --- Organization. --- Operational readiness. --- Decision making. --- Weapons systems.

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Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been re-examining its basic assumptions about foreign policy and instruments of national security polcy. This study examines the possible roles of nuclear weapons in contemporary US national security policy.

Nuclear weapons. --- Nuclear weapons - United States. --- Strategic forces. --- Strategic forces - United States. --- United States - Military policy. --- Strategic forces --- Nuclear weapons --- United States --- Military policy.

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The effectiveness of attacks on time critical targets (suppression of enemy air defenses, interdiction, and anti-theater ballistic missile missions) often depends on decisions made by the adversary. Game theory is a way to study likely changes in enemy behavior resulting from various attack capabilities and goals.

Air defenses. --- Air defenses --- Command and control systems --- Special operations (Military science) --- War games --- Simulation methods. --- Evaluation --- Planning

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This report addresses the post-Cold War use of traditional U.S. strategic nuclear forces (nuclear-armed long-range bombers, ICBMs, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles) from three perspectives: top-down (strategies to tasks), bottom-up (technological opportunities--today and tomorrow), and policy (how policy can affect R & D, acquisition, and counterproliferation strategy alternatives). The problem then is to converge on technological initiatives from a strategic and policy perspective, including directions for future work. The authors examine the potential contribution of advanced technology for U.S. long-range strategic nuclear forces that may have counterproliferation missions as well as traditional ones.

Strategic forces --- National security --- Military research --- World politics --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Procurement.