Download or read book Air Force Global Strike Command written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessment of Air Force Global Strike Command Organizational Structures Roles and Responsibilities written by United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes our review of the command relationships of Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) and its subordinate organizations. Our objective was to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of current command relationships. To achieve this objective, we interviewed US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) staff, and leaders at AFGSC. Additionally, we interviewed leaders assigned to the 8th Air Force (8 AF) and the 20th Air Force (20 AF) that report to AFGSC, as well as personnel assigned to two wings at Minot Air Force Base (one wing is assigned to each NAF). We also examined potential efficiencies and security advantages derived from alternative organizational structures at Minot AFB. We determined that AFGSC took a proactive role with regard to enhancing the Air Force's nuclear enterprise focus prior to initiation of our assessment. Resultantly, the Air Force has reduced manning at the NAFs while increasing their relevance. We identified manpower and command and control improvements that could potentially be utilized at Minot AFB to further enhance efficiency and effectiveness. Comparable efficiencies will likely be realized via initiatives undertaken by AFGSC prior to commencement of our review.

Download or read book Air Force Global Strike Command written by United States United States Air Force and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As long as nuclear weapons exist, the United States will maintain a safe, secure, and effective arsenal, both to deter potential adversaries and to assure US allies and other security partners.1 The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) provides clear guidance for Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) to provide forces for nuclear deterrence and global strike operations. This AFGSC Strategic Master Plan (SMP) details the future strategic environment, future challenges, command vision, values and priorities. Our vision and priorities underpin our values: responsibility, self-assessment, adherence, expertise, pride, respect, and safety. We will use these values to consolidate our recent gains across the nuclear enterprise and to complete the restoration of a culture that fully embraces the special trust and responsibility of nuclear weapons. As a warfighting Component MAJCOM (C-MAJCOM) to United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), AFGSC forces will execute assigned deterrence, assurance, and global strike missions. As a force provider, AFGSC will organize, train, and equip both conventional and nuclear combat forces for the President and combatant commanders (CCDRs). Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) forces are currently deployed in a nuclear deterrent role, and AFGSC bombers plan and execute deterrence and Global Power/Strike operations to provide USSTRATCOM with a visible deterrent capability. AFGSC will continue to support these forces and missions and prepare to provide additional combat power as required to address challenges and threats to the United States. The strategic environment continues to present a very dynamic and uncertain picture. The number of state and non-state actors that can produce strategic effects across the spectrum of conflict is growing in both quantity and complexity. As stated in the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance (DSG), the US Armed Forces must maintain a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent, deter and defeat aggression, project power despite anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) challenges, and counter weapons of mass destruction (WMD),2 while assuring our allies and partners of our commitment to our cooperative security agreements. In current and future conflicts, AFGSC forces are required to survive and operate in threat environments ranging from low threat/permissive environments to highly contested A2/AD environments. To overcome these obstacles and fulfill our vision, AFGSC will engage with higher headquarters, political leadership, and defense industry leaders to recapitalize, maintain, and modernize the nuclear and global strike enterprise.

Download or read book Major Commands of the United States Air Force written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 131. Chapters: Air Combat Command, Air Education and Training Command, Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Force Logistics Command, Air Force Materiel Command, Air Force Reserve Command, Air Force Space Command, Air Force Special Operations Command, Air Force Systems Command, Air Mobility Command, Air Reserve Personnel Center, Air Training Command, Alaskan Air Command, Continental Air Command, Far East Air Force (United States), List of Major Commands of the United States Air Force, Military Airlift Command, Military Air Transport Service, Northeast Air Command, Pacific Air Forces, Tactical Air Command, U.S. Air Force Security Service, United States Air Forces in Europe. Excerpt: The United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) is the United States Air Force component of U.S. European Command, a Department of Defense unified command, and is one of two Air Force Major Commands outside of the continental United States, the other being the Pacific Air Forces. It is, however, the only USAF Major Command to be headquartered outside of the United States. USAFE is headquartered at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. It is the oldest continuously active USAF major command, being constituted on January 19, 1942, as the 8 Air Force by the United States Army Air Forces. The command was activated on February 1, 1942, at Langley Field, Virginia. As of July 2012, the commander of USAFE is General Philip M. Breedlove. Lieutenant General (S) Noel T. "Tom" Jones is Vice Commander, and Chief Master Sergeant David W. Williamson is the Command Chief Master Sergeant, United States Air Forces in Europe. The command has more than 39,000 active-duty, Reserve and civilian employees assigned. The mission of the United States Air Forces in Europe is to be the air component for the U.S. European Command, directing air operations in a theater spanning three...

Download or read book Range and Persistence The Keys to Global Strike A Reprint from Air and Space Power Journal written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book To Catch a Spy written by James M. Olson and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, former Chief of CIA counterintelligence James M. Olson offers a wake-up call for the American public, showing how the US is losing the intelligence war and how our country can do a better job of protecting its national security and trade secrets.

Download or read book Roadmap for a New Command written by John J. Bleil and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis seeks to answer the following question: Given the challenges of major organizational change, how can the Air Force successfully create Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC)? This study is an analysis of three case studies using a 4-phase model as a lens to outline implications for AFGSC during its early development. To find these implications, the stand up of Strategic Air Command (SAC) and Air Combat Command (ACC) are used as the two primary case studies. The third case study looks at AFGSC itself, or at least what has occurred to date. This thesis derived the 4-phase model used in this analysis from an 8-step process created by John Kotter in his book, Leading Change. Through this exercise, Kotter's business experience-based model is adapted to a military context and used as an analytical tool to provide AFGSC principles to create an organization that has a culturally rooted set of behaviors that sustains the organization and ensures it meets its objectives in the most efficient and effective way. By using a military-specific model derived from Kotter's 8-stage process for leading change, AFGSC can learn from the past and provide a more certain and successful future for its organization. Some lessons are unique to the nuclear mission, others unique to a globally focused command, but the goal is to find lessons applicable to AFGSC."--Abstract.

Download or read book Space based Global Strike written by Larry G. Sills and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to examine the concept of prompt space-based global strikes. In order to contribute to the debate about its potential benefits and problems, this study addresses the effects of cultural mindsets and institutional preferences on decisions about future military strategy and forces. It examines how prompt precision strikes through space could provide an important set of options in future crises that are beyond the capabilities of current U, S military forces.

Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.

Download or read book Strike Command America s Elite New Combat Team written by Frank Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Concise History of the U S Air Force written by Stephen Lee McFarland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.

Download or read book Environmental Assessment for the Beddown of the Global Strike Command Headquarters written by United States. Air Force. Air Combat Command and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book USAF Air Combat Command and Air Mobility Command written by Peter Dancey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a chronology of the US air force's 1992 drawdown and establishment of its new ACC and AMC commands, out of the previous SAC, TAC and MAC that formed its command structure from its incpetion post-WW II until 1992. The resultant base closures, realigment, re-allocation and equipment withdrawals. The changes that followed the mid-term review in the 1990's and further equipment reductions, but with continued introduction of new 'stealth' types, for the 21st Century. Elint and Special Intelligence 'Rivet' types to remain in use in the hew millennium. The Balkan Wars and the NATO led Kosovo War, the first time NATO had flown operatiomal combat missions since its inception fifty years before and the first war in history to be won by airpower alone. How it was done! Gulf War II, Afghanistan, and the Expeditionary Air Wings.

Download or read book Father Figure written by Jordan Shapiro and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful and "utterly mind-blowing" exploration of fatherhood and masculinity in the 21st century (New York Times). There are hundreds of books on parenting, and with good reason—becoming a parent is scary, difficult, and life-changing. But when it comes to books about parenting identity, rather than the nuts and bolts of raising children, nearly all are about what it's like to be a mother. Drawing on research in sociology, economics, philosophy, gender studies, and the author's own experiences, Father Figure sets out to fill that gap. It's an exploration of the psychology of fatherhood from an archetypal perspective as well as a cultural history that challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of so-called traditional parenting roles. What paradoxes and contradictions are inherent in our common understanding of dads? Might it be time to rethink some aspects of fatherhood? Gender norms are changing, and old economic models are facing disruption. As a result, parenthood and family life are undergoing an existential transformation. And yet, the narratives and images of dads available to us are wholly inadequate for this transition. Victorian and Industrial Age tropes about fathers not only dominate the media, but also contour most people's lived experience. Father Figure offers a badly needed update to our collective understanding of fatherhood—and masculinity in general. It teaches dads how to embrace the joys of fathering while guiding them toward an image of manliness for the modern world.

Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preliminary Draft Environmental Assessment for the Beddown of the Global Strike Command Headquarters written by United States. Air Force. Air Combat Command and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The United States Air Force written by United States. Air Force. Office of Information and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: