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We had an AUiX teammate PCS this week. As is tradition, we give our PCSing officers a Star Wars-themed farewell gift—this time, a replica of Han Solo’s iconic blaster. I considered adding a plaque that simply read: “Who shot first?” But as I floated the idea, I realized only about half the room caught the …
As a squadron commander, I spent countless hours with our team in Air Operations Centers around the world, developing strategy, writing operational plans, wargaming, and wrestling with the ambiguity that defines modern conflict. We were serious about our craft—so much so that we garnered a nickname: The Masterminds. It wasn’t a boast, but a reflection …
There is something unsettling, even dangerous, about the iconoclast. From the origin of the word itself—a compound of the Greek eikōn, meaning "image," and klan, "to break"—the iconoclast has always been defined in opposition to sacred norms. In its earliest usage, the term described those who quite literally smashed religious images during the Byzantine Iconoclasm …
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In the evolving landscape of twenty-first-century conflict, traditional domains of warfare—land, sea, air, space, and even cyber—are now accompanied by a more elusive and insidious front: the human mind. Dubbed "cognitive warfare," this emerging domain does not target physical infrastructure or conventional forces, but the very frameworks individuals and societies use to perceive, interpret, and …
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