Download or read book A Perspective on the USAFE United States Air Forces in Europe Collocated Operating Base System written by Donald E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This note documents results of an evaluation of selected management issues associated with the development of the Collocated Operating Base (COB) program in NATO. The COB concept was developed in response to the requirements for bedding down the large number of USAF aircraft to be sent to Europe in support of current contingency plans to augment forces of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) based in the theater. The research was designed to: (1) assess the current status of the COB system of air bases in Europe; (2) evaluate the capability of the COBs, especially their ability to generate and sustain wartime sorties; (3) identify means of enhancing the combat contribution of the COBs; and (4) identify actions that could improve the wartime readiness of COB-related resources. The authors suggest that the USAFE staff must develop two general policy areas to ensure that the COBs, as a system, provide the planned defense posture; a concerted program to increase the peacetime emphasis on developing the COBs as a system; and specific programs to evaluate, test, and increase the war-fighting capabilities of the COB-based augmentation air forces.
Download or read book A Perspective on the USAFE Collocated Operating Base System written by Donald E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Note documents the results of an evaluation of selected management issues associated with the development of the collocated operating base (COB) program in NATO. The COB concept was developed in response to requirements for bedding down the large number of aircraft that the U.S. Air Force will send to Europe to support current contingency plans for augmenting USAFE (U.S. Air Forces in Europe) based in the theater. The research was designed to (1) assess the current status of the COB system of airbases in Europe; (2) evaluate the capability of the COBs, especially their ability to generate and sustain wartime sorties; (3) identify means of enhancing the combat contribution of the COBs; and (4) identify actions that could improve the wartime readiness of COB-related resources. The authors suggest that USAFE staff develop two general policy areas to ensure that the COBs provide the planned defense posture: (1) a concerted program to increase peacetime emphasis on designing and implementing the COB system and (2) specific programs to evaluate and test the warfighting capabilities of COB-based augmented air forces.
Download or read book A Perspective on the USAFE Collocated Operating Base Systems written by Donald E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NATO Air Defenses written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Air Forces in Europe Plans for the Procurement and Pre positioning of Deployable Air Base Kits written by United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We determined whether U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) developed a plan for procuring and pre‐positioning Deployable Air Base System-Facilities, Equipment, and Vehicles Kits (Deployable Air Base Kits) within the U.S. European Command area of responsibility. USAFE developed the Deployable Air Base Kits program, focusing on pre‐positioning U.S. Air Force equipment throughout USEUCOM’s area of responsibility. The kits include tents, vehicles, medical supplies, and airfield repair equipment. According to USAFE officials, the kits will enhance the USEUCOM and the U.S. Air Force’s capability to stand up an air base in the event of a contingency; thereby, reducing the time and cost of transporting equipment from either the continental United States or other existing bases in the USEUCOM area of responsibility.
Download or read book Technical Reports Awareness Circular TRAC written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-03 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working with Allies and Partners written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "U.S. European Command (EUCOM) views building partnerships as its highest theater priority. U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) seeks to build partnerships and partner capacity in the EUCOM area of responsibility. In spite of the potential benefits of USAFE's building-partnership (BP) activities, USAFE's posture and its BP activities do come with a cost. In today's austere fiscal environment, it is appropriate to assess how the United States and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) can build partnerships most efficiently while ensuring that the requirements for maintaining key alliances and partnerships continue to be met. This report characterizes the current policy debate on security cooperation and force posture in Europe through a review of the literature and discussions with key policymakers and legislative officials in Washington, develops a framework to describe the current BP approach and environment for the USAF in Europe, defines several alternative postures for conducting BP activities using a building-block approach to cost out each high-payoff BP activity, and recommends efficiencies to improve the USAF's BP activities in Europe."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Defending Air Bases in an Age of Insurgency written by Shannon Caudill and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology discusses the converging operational issues of air base defense and counterinsurgency. It explores the diverse challenges associated with defending air assets and joint personnel in a counterinsurgency environment. The authors are primarily Air Force officers from security forces, intelligence, and the office of special investigations, but works are included from a US Air Force pilot and a Canadian air force officer. The authors examine lessons from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts as they relate to securing air bases and sustaining air operations in a high-threat counterinsurgency environment. The essays review the capabilities, doctrine, tactics, and training needed in base defense operations and recommend ways in which to build a strong, synchronized ground defense partnership with joint and combined forces. The authors offer recommendations on the development of combat leaders with the depth of knowledge, tactical and operational skill sets, and counterinsurgency mind set necessary to be effective in the modern asymmetric battlefield.
Download or read book Air Force Journal of Logistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents written by United States. Defense Logistics Studies Information Exchange and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of Coalition Logistics Issues Options and Opportunities for Research written by H. Wayne Gustafson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coalition logistics refers to collaborative support of military forces by allies, including host nation support, cooperative management of supply and maintenance, and shared logistics planning for codeveloped weapon systems. Coalition logistics has never been a dominant theme of combined operations in U.S. alliances. As a result, opportunities for coalition logistics are going unrealized or underexploited, and payoffs from pursuing these opportunities have not been analyzed. This Note reports on a survey of such opportunities as they pertain to the U.S. Air Force and outlines prerequisite research needed to capitalize on them. Despite formidable political and economic obstacles to implementing coalition logistics, there are trends at work that appear to augur favorably for that approach in the long run. The author suggests research areas for assessing the merits of possible directions for coalition logistics and to determine how to reduce the barriers to implementation.
Download or read book Air Base Defense written by Alan J. Vick and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gap between the growing cruise and ballistic missile threat to U.S. Air Force bases in Europe and the U.S. capacity and capability to counter the threat is worrisome. This report assesses alternative Air Force courses of action.
Download or read book Fiscal year 1978 authorization for military procurement research and development and active duty selected reserve and civilian personnel strengths written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nato Air Defenses written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a congressional request, GAO evaluated the Department of Defense's (DOD) efforts to correct deficiencies in the defense and survivability of its air bases in Europe. GAO found that: (1) the U.S. Air Force in Europe (USAFE) had begun to identify and correct problems in its Air Base Operability (ABO) Program at its main and collocated operating bases; (2) USAFE reallocation of funds from ABO hampered DOD efforts to correct program deficiencies; (3) because USAFE withdrew ABO design funds for collocated bases in January 1988, in anticipation of budget cuts, project designs were not complete and the projects did not qualify for additional budget funds; and (4) although reallocation of funds from ABO should not threaten ABO initiatives, the delay in implementing them could be lengthy.
Download or read book Creech Blue written by James C. Slife and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Slife chronicles the influence of the late Gen Wilbur L. "Bill" Creech7a leader, visionary, warrior, and mentor7in the areas of equipment and tactics, training, organization, and leader development. His study serves both to explain the context of a turbulent time in our Air Force's history and to reveal where tomorrow's airmen may find answers to some of the difficult challenges facing them today. Colonel Slife, who addresses such controversial topics as the development of the Army's AirLand Battle doctrine and what it meant to airmen, is among the first to describe what historians will surely see in years to come as the revolutionary developments of the late 1970s/early 1980s and General Creech's central role. Creech Blue enlightens the Air Force on its strongly held convictions during that period and challenges the idea that by 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Air Force had forgotten how to wage a "strategic" air campaign and was dangerously close to plunging into a costly and lengthy war of attrition had it not been for the vision of a small cadre of thinkers on the Air Staff. In exploring the doctrine and language of the decade leading up to Operation Desert Storm, Colonel Slife reveals that the Air Force was not as shortsighted as many people have argued.
Download or read book Air Force Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-07 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
