Airpower advocates are used to paraphrasing retired Gen. Chuck Horner, air boss of the first Gulf War, that little can be achieved in modern warfare without airpower. Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne, offering the keynote address at the AFA convention yesterday, offered a new riff on that thought: “Without cyber dominance, all other domains are at risk.” Wynne said he is working on setting up a cyber command, and noted that cyber warfare can be conducted “globally, simultaneously, and on infinite fronts.”
Advancements in commercial space technology could make President Donald Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense network far more likely to succeed than the failed “Star Wars” strategic umbrella initiative of the 1980s, U.S. Space Command’s top general said May 22....