Five Myths about AirSea Battle by , War on the Rocks.
In my view, the world would be a much better place without “AirSea Battle” (ASB). Not the concept, mind you, but the limited public knowledge thereof leading to misinterpretation, misunderstanding, and intellectual malpractice. It would have been much better for the Department of Defense (DoD) never to have acknowledged that it was working on the concept (which it did in the February 2010 release of the Quadrennial Defense Review), so all that existed in the public domain was the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments’ (CSBA) May 2010 work on ASB, an enormously important, well-written and well-thought out work. ASB would then still only be the machinations of a think-tank (well-regarded as it is), rather than something approaching stated U.S. government policy, with frequent Service Chief mentions and public knowledge of the existence of a multi-service organization dedicated to its ends, whatever they may be.
In other words, we would all be much better off if DoD had kept its collective mouth shut, but they haven’t...