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Combat air forces tacticians and operational planners have yet to understand the B-21 Raider's potential capability. Leadership's vision is clear, but service-level parochial interests, insular platform cultures, and competition for resources are creating unhealthy tensions within the combat air forces, Department of the Air Force, and across the Joint force. Such tensions could severely hamper tactical creativity, operational planning, and strategic competition, ultimately undermining the US Air Force's effectiveness against a peer adversary. Amid the move toward pulsed operations, a rift has emerged between standoff and stand-in tactical philosophies. Yet the B-21 Raider's family of systems at a minimum operates in both areas, likely demanding a reconsideration of these concepts. Such a reconsideration can also help the Air Force transcend stealth/nonstealth and fighter/bomber debates to embrace new levels of tactical creativity., Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall III established operational imperatives for the US Air Force in recognition that adversaries have "capabilities designed to defeat the United States' ability to [...]

James Paterson shows you how to kick-start your creativity this new year with a host of Nikon tips, tricks and photo inspiration The new year is a chance for new [...]

THERE'S ONE PARTICULAR Eddie Van Halen quote that has stayed with me since I first read it as a kid in the November 1978 issue of Guitar Player. It was [...]

CAMERA CRAFT Get better photos from your mirrorless camera or DSLR PHOTO EDITING Techniques and smart shortcuts for Photoshop 1 HIDE SELECTION EDGES If the dotted line of a selection [...]

Portrait photography is a genre that offers endless possibilities for creativity, allowing you to capture the unique qualities of your subject's face while also telling a story through styling and [...]

While it can be viewed--sometimes correctly--as a creativity killer, AI can also offer handy solutions Artificial intelligence is a term that's becoming increasingly inescapable. As the array of technologies that [...]

The 'golden hour' -the last hour before sunset and the first hour after sunrise - is often harnessed by professional photographers. Also referred to as the 'magic hour', these times [...]

The purpose of the following article is to present a theoretical model of metaphors and to show how that model is useful in analyzing exemplars of critical and creative thought. Nothing is more basic to reflective thinking than root metaphors. They constitute the wellspring from which critical and creative thinking flows. When critical and creative thinking interact with one another, they create an exemplar in the history of ideas. Keywords: critical thinking, creative thinking, root metaphors, model, exemplars, Introduction Metaphor is the ultimate measure of mind. Aristotle (2020) seems to have grasped this idea when he wrote: 'The greatest thing by far is to be a master of [...]

When my daughter was in preschool, we had a pretty regular thing going. I'd give her broccoli, she'd frown and fold her arms across her chest, and I'd sigh in [...]

Make a magic school bus Here's a clever way to get your kids pumped for back-to-school season: Host a 'School Year's Eve' celebration! Melissa Johnson, a mom of two and [...]

For decades, we’ve been told that creative people are right-brain thinkers, establishing a “have and have not” dichotomy – either you’re an innovative creative or you’re a left-brain thinker, analytical [...]

As a major player in the world of funk, Cory Wong tasks himself with placing his considerable rhythm guitar skills centre stage - something he calls 'lead rhythm guitar'. The [...]

Where we work has rapidly evolved over the last few years, with people now adopting the hybrid approach of both commuting to an office and working from home--a legacy of [...]

I was a very dreamy kind of kid, the type who was always drawing. I created a family newspaper at a young age and, with an equally artsy pal down [...]

Do you know that what makes us human, our creativity and empathy, are key attributes of successful learners and leaders? Creativity can be learned and developed without assistance, but empathy [...]

APPLE'S PHOTOS APP has a limited collection of filters that change a shot's colors and tones in a clck. Pixelmator Pro enables you to go much further with your creative [...]

Apple's Photos app has a limited collection of filters that change a shot's colours and tones in a click. Pixelmator Pro enables you to go much further with your creative [...]

Earlier on in my career, a dance organization I worked with hired a highly respected branding firm. They'd been tasked with developing our new logo and website. After months of [...]

Picture ziti pasta shells strung into a necklace with yarn or glued onto flimsy paper. Think back to dried leaves and flowers cracking and falling off of cardboard squares, or [...]

OVERVIEW: IRI firms constantly strive to improve their innovative capacity. Accessing external innovation is a central theme of this activity. While much has been made of accessing technology from universities, small high technology firms, and other non-affiliated entities, IRI executives are looking to a historical source of support: the supplier community. The purpose of this article is to describe nine better practices that help IRI customer and supplier firms bring more and more effective innovation to market. The nine practices were identified by interviewing both the R&D manager and procurement manager in eight customer firms and both the R&D manager and sales manager in eight supplier firms through workshops and individual interviews. KEYWORDS: Supplier innovation, Open innovation, Alliances, Research-on-Research, In today's competitive environment, chief technology officers (CTOs) face tremendous pressure to deliver results. One source of innovation is suppliers. Customer firms seeking increased innovation may look to cultivate mutually [...]

Once there was a little girl who lived in Oklahoma in a neighborhood full of friends to play with. She spent her days organizing the neighborhood kids to act out [...]

At the age of three, Mohsin Hamid left Lahore, Pakistan with his family and traveled 7,550 miles to CA for his father's studies at Stanford University. There, Mohsin began a [...]

One of the most important fundamental mathematical concepts we learn in school is the Pythagorean Theorem. While at first we practice this concept to find the missing side of a [...]