Audio by Natalie Morehouse | U.S. Navy JAG Corps | 04.01.2022
LT Megan Martino talks with CDR Abby Surbella and LN1 (now LTJG) Chelse Wilson about their experience with the Career Intermission Program. The Career Intermission Program allows Officers and enlisted Sailors the ability to transfer out of the active component and into the Individual Ready Reserve for up to 3 years while retaining full health care coverage and base privileges. UPDATE: NAVADMIN......
Audio by Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell | Air University Public Affairs Multimedia | 04.01.2022
As it has across the entire Indo-Pacific, geopolitical competition has intensified in the Bay of Bengal. There is, indeed, a competition between and among major powers; India competes with China, US-led allies challenge China·s assertiveness, and the Bay of Bengal·situated at the intersection between South and Southeast Asia·is a divider, a connector, and a battleground. To set out the......
Audio by Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell | Air University Public Affairs Multimedia | 04.01.2022
Artificial intelligence technologies have been developed for many years and applied in various areas. Applications of artificial intelligence exist not only in domestic surveillance but also in military uses. artificial intelligence-related topics have become even more controversial and attracted more attention where China, a nation with rapid growth in its military development, is involved.......
Audio by Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell | Air University Public Affairs Multimedia | 04.01.2022
This article argues that not only are policy elites within the Quad underbalancing by avoiding mutual defense commitments, but also that they might be inviting the very aggression by China that they seek to avoid....
Audio by Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell | Air University Public Affairs Multimedia | 04.01.2022
In response to a highly potential military confrontation in the Taiwan Strait, both the United States and Taiwan must look for a strong collective defense framework against China·s threat, and the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), composed of the United States, Japan, Australia, and India, is a decent platform for that concept. The Quad has a good basis for developing a mutual security......
Audio by Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell | Air University Public Affairs Multimedia | 04.01.2022
This article presents the Converged Effects Cells (CEC) theoretical model to organize and employ information warfare (IW) capabilities in the Indo-Pacific necessary for the success of Agile Combat Employment (ACE) and Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JAD C2)·· This construct operationalizes the ideas of Lieutenant General Timothy Haugh and Brigadier General George Reynolds to achieve......
Audio by Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell | Air University Public Affairs Multimedia | 04.01.2022
This article contemplates a regional intelligence-gathering and -sharing convention. Such a convention would systematize and regulate the collection, analysis, and sharing of intelligence data. Such a convention is likely to become progressively more important as we realize the potential of autonomous systems to gather data....
Audio by Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell | Air University Public Affairs Multimedia | 04.01.2022
As strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific theater intensifies, states are more actively searching for ways strengthen their position in the great power game. Emerging technologies are at the center of this new geopolitical, geostrategic chess board, and their dual capabilities are opening new domains for the conduct of hostilities as well as cooperation. This article examines the new threat......