Airpower leaders gain strength from synergism, combining air, space, and cyber options and leveraging strategic partnerships to promote desired end states. National strategy informs airpower decisions, but airpower contingencies also reinforce or transform national strategy. Understanding their role and function within the national strategic framework, airpower leaders need to focus most on situational awareness, diplomacy and joint planning, and power projection.
Situational awareness in the realm of airpower includes cybersecurity strategies and surveillance methods that enable more of a global capacity to predict and respond to threats. Global awareness also refers to the ability of airpower leaders to respond to changes in global economic and political situations. Working with cyber power including artificial intelligence and advanced processing capacities, airpower leaders can remain cognizant of changes and potential threats and respond accordingly. Space situational awareness is also emerging as a key area of concern for airpower leaders (Air Force Space Command 11). Signals intelligence, spectrum access, and the normalization of cyberspace will also be important to airpower leaders in the future (Air Force Space Command 9). Situational awareness calls upon airpower leaders to respond proactively but swiftly, using a team-based approach to solving problems.
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