Air Force 2025

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An Operational Analysis for Air Force 2025 - An Application of Value-Focused Thinking to Future Air and Space Capabilities
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Executive Summary - 2025
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Owning The Weather in 2025 - A Research Paper Presented to Air Force 2025 - August 1996
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Weather as A Force Multiplier - Owning the Weather in 2025
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Air Force 2025: Final Report


Monographs


Executive Summary
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Alternate Futures for 2025 - Security Planning to Avoid Surprise
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An Operational Analysis for Air Force 2025 - An Application of Value-Focused Thinking to Future Air and Space Capabilities
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Volume 1: Awareness


  1. Information Operations: Wisdom Warfare for 2025

  2. Worldwide Information Control System (WICS) 2025 In-Time Information Integration System (I3S)

  3. The Command or Control Dilemma: When Technology and Organizational Orientation Collide

  4. Joint Readiness Assessment and Planning Integrated Decision System (JRAPIDS): Combat Readiness and Joint Force Management for 2025

  5. Virtual Integrated Planning and Execution Resource System (VIPERS): The High Ground of 2025

  6. The Man in the Chair: Cornerstone of Global Battle-space Dominance

  7. Brilliant Warrior

  8. Brilliant Force and the Expert Architecture that Supports It

  9. Brilliant Warrior: Information Technology Integration in Education and Training
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Volume 2: Reach and Presence


  1. Logistics in 2025: Consider It Done!

  2. Dynamic Response Logistics: Changing Environments, Technologies, and Processes

  3. 2025 Aerospace Replenishment: The Insidious Force Multiplier

  4. Airlift 2025: The First with the Most

  5. Space-lift 2025: The Supporting Pillar for Space Superiority

  6. SPACENET: On-Orbit Support in 2025

  7. Procurement in 2025: Smarter Ways to Modernize

  8. Aerospace Sanctuary in 2025: Shrinking the Bull's-Eye
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Volume 3: Power and Influence


  1. Frontier Missions: Peace-space Dominance

  2. Information Operations: A New War-Fighting Capability

  3. Information Attack: Information Warfare in 2025

  4. A Contrarian View of Strategic Aerospace Warfare

  5. Interdiction: Shaping Things to Come

  6. Hit 'em Where it Hurts: Strategic Attack in 2025

  7. Close Air Support (CAS) in 2025: "Computer, Lead's in Hot"

  8. Counter-air: The Cutting Edge

  9. Star Tek-Exploiting the Final Frontier: Counter-space Operations in 2025

  10. Surfing the First and Second Waves in 2025: A SOF Strategy for Regional Engagement

  11. The DIM MAK Response of Special Operations Forces to the World of 2025: Zero Tolerance/Zero Error

  12. A Hypersonic Attack Platform: The S3 Concept

  13. Strike-star 2025

  14. Space Operations: Through The Looking GLASS (Global Area Strike System)

  15. Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025

  16. Planetary Defense: Catastrophic Health Insurance for Planet Earth
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Volume 4: Special Studies 

 

  1. Paths to Extinction: The US Air Force in 2025

  2. "...Or Go Down in Flame?" An Airpower Manifesto for the 21st Century

  3. An Operational Analysis for Air Force 2025: An Application of Value-Focused Thinking to Future Air and Space Capabilities
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Volume 5: Information Strike 


 
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1. Knowledge Warfare: Shattering the Information War Paradigm (page 53)

2. INCAPACATTACK: The Strings of the Puppet Master (page 54)

3. C-Net Attack (page 55)
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