Behind the cyberspace veil; the hidden evolution of the Air Force officer corps

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2008

Behind the cyberspace veil; the hidden evolution of the Air Force officer corps.

Collins, Brian J.

Praeger Security International

2008

241 pages

$54.95

Hardcover

UG793

Collins (military strategy and operations, National War College) examines the implications of the US Air Force's adoption of and monopoly over C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) for the Air Force officer corps as a profession. He discusses how C4ISR has become an expertise and a jurisdiction in its own right, partly because jurisdiction lies at the heart of what it means to see the officer corps as a profession, yet the officer corps is still dominated by pilots, even if the percentage has decreased. He recommends that the Air Force create a cyberspace officer career path and eliminate the promotion bias in favor of pilots in order to fully exploit cyberspace.

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