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| Center for Strategy and Technology | |
|---|---|
| Name | Center for Strategy and Technology |
| Established | 19XX |
| Type | Research center |
| Location | Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama |
| Parent | Air University |
Center for Strategy and Technology
The Center for Strategy and Technology is an academic and policy research institution located at Maxwell Air Force Base affiliated with Air University, producing strategic analysis and educational programs that inform defense planners, senior leaders, and allied partners. It connects scholarship to practice through seminars, wargames, and publications that engage audiences from the Pentagon to international academies, and collaborates with think tanks, universities, and industry laboratories.
Founded within Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, the Center for Strategy and Technology traces antecedents to Cold War-era professional military education reforms that involved institutions like the National War College, Naval War College, Air War College, and Army War College. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s it adapted concepts from strategic scholarship associated with Kenneth Waltz, Thomas Schelling, Carl von Clausewitz, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and organizations such as RAND Corporation, Brookings Institution, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies to address post–Cold War challenges. The Center expanded its remit after major events including the Gulf War, the September 11 attacks, and the rise of peer competitors like the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation, aligning curriculum and research with initiatives from the Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and allied staffs from NATO and the Five Eyes. It has hosted distinguished visitors from institutions such as Harvard University, Stanford University, Princeton University, King's College London, and Australian National University.
The Center articulates objectives that mirror strategic studies traditions exemplified by scholars and institutions like Henry Kissinger, Paul Nitze, George Kennan, Thomas Schelling, Barry Posen, and Stephen Van Evera. Its mission emphasizes producing actionable analysis for senior leaders across the United States Air Force, United States Space Force, United States Navy, and United States Army, while informing multilateral partners from United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. It seeks to fuse theoretical perspectives drawn from Neorealism, Offense–Defense Theory, and deterrence scholarship with practitioner needs reflected in directives from Secretary of Defense offices, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and joint doctrine produced by Joint Chiefs of Staff publications.
The Center operates within Air University's organizational framework alongside entities like the Air Command and Staff College and the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, reporting to senior leadership at Maxwell akin to reporting lines observed at Naval Postgraduate School and National Defense University. Its governance includes a directorate, research divisions, advisory boards populated with fellows from RAND Corporation, Center for a New American Security, Heritage Foundation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and visiting scholars from Georgetown University, Yale University, and Columbia University. Administrative relationships mirror those among Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program offices, university departments such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Security Studies Program, and collaborative labs like MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories.
Research themes span strategic competition and deterrence, capabilities development, and force posture—topics addressed by authorities including John Mearsheimer, Graham Allison, Elbridge Colby, H.R. McMaster, and Michele Flournoy. Programs focus on airpower theory, space strategy, cyber operations, nuclear policy, and emerging technologies, intersecting with technical communities at NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Microsoft Research, and Alphabet X. The Center conducts wargaming and scenario analysis drawing on methods used at RAND Corporation, SIPRI, and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute to examine crises such as a Taiwan Strait contingency, Arctic competition involving Norway and Canada, and European deterrence vis-à-vis the Russian Federation after the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Collaborative initiatives have included partnerships with United States Cyber Command, European External Action Service, NATO Allied Command Transformation, and civil-military research programs at Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University.
The Center supports professional military education through seminars, elective courses, and fellowship programs akin to offerings at the Fletcher School, Elliott School of International Affairs, and Stimson Center fellowships. Coursework integrates case studies on campaigns like the Battle of Britain, the Persian Gulf War, the Iraq War, and operations in Afghanistan with studies by historians and strategists from Oxford University, Cambridge University, King's College London, and Yale University. Training modules address strategic communication, decision-making under uncertainty, and interagency coordination with inputs from practitioners who have served in offices under Secretary of State, the National Security Council, and combatant commands such as USINDOPACOM and USEUCOM.
The Center publishes monographs, policy briefs, and articles in outlets and series comparable to those of International Security, Security Studies, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and analysis cited by think tanks like CSIS, Brookings, and Atlantic Council. Its reports have informed testimony before congressional committees including the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee, and have influenced strategic guidance such as the National Defense Strategy and reviews by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Scholars affiliated with the Center have testified alongside experts from RAND Corporation, Heritage Foundation, and Center for a New American Security on issues ranging from force posture to technology policy.
Leadership and fellows have included senior military officers, former defense officials, and academics with ties to institutions like Harvard Kennedy School, Princeton University, Georgetown University, Yale University, MIT, Stanford University, Columbia University, King's College London, and think tanks such as CSIS and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Visiting faculty and adjuncts have come from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, NATO, and allied defense ministries of United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan, and have collaborated with researchers from RAND Corporation, Brookings Institution, Hoover Institution, and Center for Strategic and International Studies.