Defense PolicySeptember 17, 2026· Breaking Defense

Chairman Caine talks cislunar ops, plus a window into next-gen airlift

We discuss top news from the final day of AFA 2026.

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MacGyver at Scale: Winning Future Air Wars of Rapid Technological Adaptation

During a recent training exercise in the western Pacific, a small group of engineers single-handedly saved the day.In the scenario, adversary covert forces used first-person view drones to intercept American helicopters that were shuttling between austere forward island airbases. Some helicopters were shot down, and the rest were forced to suspend flight operations, meaning the island bases were cut off from each other and from easy resupply. Fortunately, one of the U.S. bases included a small, forward-deployed team of military engineers and their equipment. They analyzed the adversary radio control techniques and then designed and built custom self-protection radio jammers, The post MacGyver at Scale: Winning Future Air Wars of Rapid Technological Adaptation appeared first on War on the Rocks.

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School of War or School of Battle? Educating for an Uncertain Future

In 1901, military analyst Jan Bloch declared that new military technologies had changed war so radically that the study of history had become useless. He castigated military officers who prepared for future war based on “musty precedents” and who failed to recognize that the past was as irrelevant to the future as the experiences of caterpillars were to butterflies. Some of his tactical predictions did prove prescient: He anticipated that modern firepower and entrenchments would make decisive battle impossible. But he was very wrong about the continued value of history. After all, it was his study of past wars — The post School of War or School of Battle? Educating for an Uncertain Future appeared first on War on the Rocks.

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