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  • Minuteman III test provides vital data before termination

    Space Launch Delta 30 safely terminated an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean at 12:06 a.m. Pacific Time Nov. 1, due to an anomaly during a test launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

  • Faculty

    Mr. Al Mauroni is the Director, U.S. Air Force Center for Strategic Deterrence Studies. In this position, he oversees education and research in counter-WMD policy and nuclear deterrence operations at the Air War College.

  • Trinity Site Papers

    The purpose of these papers is to provide useful ideas and independent analysis of issues of current or potential importance to the Air Force Secretariat and Air Staff.  

  • Homeland Defense & Civil Support

    Homeland Defense operations help ensure the integrity and security of the Homeland by detecting, deterring, preventing, or, if necessary, defeating threats and aggression against the United States as early and as far from its borders as possible so as to minimize their effects on US society and

  • Irregular Warfare

    Adaptive adversaries such as terrorists, insurgents, and criminal networks as well as states will increasingly resort to irregular forms of warfare as effective ways to challenge conventional military powers. Advances in technology and other trends in the environment will render such irregular

  • Stability Operations

    If the U.S. military conducts [Stabilization, Security, Transition, and Reconstitution] operations in a country or region where stocks of WMD or [CBRN] materials are present as a legacy from the previous regime, timely elimination of these WMD and CBRN stocks, delivery systems, and possibly

  • Major Combat Operations

    The Joint Force, supported by other instruments of national and multinational power, conducts synergistic, high-tempo actions in multiple domains to shatter the coherence of the adversary's plans and dispositions and render him unable or unwilling to militarily oppose the achievement of U.S.