The School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at Maxwell AFB, Ala., invited a few friends to participate in its most recent Theater Campaign Warfare exercise, enlisting 35 officers from Navy and Army schools and a French officer attending SAASS. According to Col. Scott Gorman, SAASS commandant, TCW is unlike other wargames at Maxwell because it doesn’t deal with hands-on planning, instead it focuses on the “heart of strategic thinking—how to prioritize problems and fix them.” (Maxwell report by Carl Bergquist)
Lt. Gen. Stephen L. Davis, the Department of the Air Force’s top internal watchdog, has been nominated to lead Air Force Global Strike Command, which oversees the service’s bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.