Shaping the Air Force’s Future Battlespace

By Walter Pincus

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders. Pincus won an Emmy in 1981 and was the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy in 2010.  He was also a team member for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and the George Polk Award in 1978.  

“My personal view is, the first shots of the future fight will be either in the cyber domain or — maybe it’s an ‘and’ — and the space domain.  And so we’ve got to make sure we have sufficient capability there because that’s critical to our capabilities to fight and win.”

Those were the words of Mark Esper, the new Secretary of Defense, delivered last Wednesday at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air, Space and Cyber Conference.

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