Ten years ago this week, the US and NATO allies launched Deliberate Force, a significant airpower assault on renegade Bosnian Serbs who were running amok, killing Muslims in the Yugoslav rump state of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The three-week air campaign, shaped and conducted by USAF Gen. Michael Ryan (later to become Chief of Staff in 1997) forced the Serbs to down weapons and make peace in talks at Dayton, Ohio. Read our 1997 article here. Deliberate Force, bracketed between Desert Storm (1991) and Allied Force (1999) doesn’t get the attention it deserves.
If China invaded Taiwan, how would it play out on the Internet and mobile devices? Over the course of four weeks in late August and early September, Airmen in the 16th Air Force information warfare organization explored how to mine social media and other forms of public information to address…