Download or read book Global Reach Global Power and the USAF Tactical Air Forces written by Glen W. Moorhead and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1990, the Secretary of the Air Force, Donald B. Rice, issued a Department of the Air Force White Paper entitled The Air Force and U.S. National Security: Global Reach Global Power which set the stage for the evolving role of the Air Force as a prime instrument of national security policy and strategy. As a result of dramatic and historic changes in the international environment, it is clear that defense budget reductions will significantly affect the USAF by not only cutting force structure, but also by deleting some forward basing overseas. Secretary Rice foresees a leading role for the USAF in protecting worldwide U.S. interests by projecting U.S. airpower, whenever and wherever, to fill the gaps left by these cuts. This paper will focus on one element of U.S. airpower, the USAF Tactical Air Force and their future roles, missions, and capabilities to support the Global Reach - Global Power strategy.
Download or read book Global Reach Global Power and the USAF Tactical Air Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1990, the Secretary of the Air Force, Donald B. Rice, issued a Department of the Air Force White Paper entitled The Air Force and U.S. National Security: Global Reach Global Power which set the stage for the evolving role of the Air Force as a prime instrument of national security policy and strategy. As a result of dramatic and historic changes in the international environment, it is clear that defense budget reductions will significantly affect the USAF by not only cutting force structure, but also by deleting some forward basing overseas. Secretary Rice foresees a leading role for the USAF in protecting worldwide U.S. interests by projecting U.S. airpower, whenever and wherever, to fill the gaps left by these cuts. This paper will focus on one element of U.S. airpower, the USAF Tactical Air Force and their future roles, missions, and capabilities to support the Global Reach - Global Power strategy.
Download or read book Global Air Power written by John Andreas Olsen and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What influences have shaped air power since human flight became a reality more than a hundred years ago? Global Air Power provides insight into the evolution of air power theory and practice by examining the experience of six of the world’s largest air forces--those of the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, Russia, India, and China--and of representative smaller air forces in Pacific Asia, Latin America, and continental Europe. The chapters, written by highly regarded scholars and military leaders, explore how various nations have integrated air power into their armed forces and how they have applied air power in both regular and irregular warfare and in peacetime operations. They cover the organizational, professional, and doctrinal issues that air forces confronted in the past, the lessons learned from victory and defeat, and emerging challenges and opportunities. Further, Global Air Power supplements the traditional military perspective with examinations of the ideological, economic, and cultural factors that give air forces their distinctive characters. Chapters show how the interplay among these internal factors, together with external challenges, determines the structure, role, and effectiveness of air forces. Together, these chapters illuminate universal trends as well as similarities and differences among the world’s air forces. Its combination of military history and sociopolitical analysis makes Global Air Power especially valuable to a broad range of historians, air power specialists, and general readers interested in national defense and international relations.
Download or read book Reaching Globally Reaching Powerfully written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Reach Global Power written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 15 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 Global Engagement written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Service to the Nation written by John A. Shaud and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Provides a look at what the U.S. Air Force (USAF) should be about in the future, specifically 10¿15 years from now. This study identifies the enduring attributes of our nation¿s air, space, and cyberspace force in the context of major transitions. The study avoided a focus on hardware and resourcing; the focus is on roles, missions, and functions ¿such as the transition from the Cold War to Long War era.¿ The study¿s target audience was the presidential transition teams, with a delivery date ¿prior to the next election.¿ The intent is to understand the value of the service¿s contribution to national security and, where appropriate, offer considerations for change. It provides insight into the most pressing issues facing the USAF in the post¿Cold War era. Illus.
Download or read book Global Reach Global Power The Evolving Air Force Contribution to National Security written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This current white paper reviews the principles of Global Reach-Global Power and shows how we have applied them to every aspect of how we do business. It also outlines the evolution in our thinking spurred by these principles and the experience of the Gulf War and other events. The principles of Global Reach-Global Power have been battle tested. They have enabled us to identify and nurture the unique contributions of aerospace power to joint warfare and the Nation's defense. They will continue to serve as the intellectual compass of an institution whose contribution to national security becomes more important daily-the United States Air Force.
Download or read book Airfield Defense for Global Reach Global Power written by Lawrence R. Lane and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New World Order, or Post Cold War Period, are best described as a time of increased emphasis on domestic issues in the United States, the rise of nationalistic trends globally, and a greater emphasis by the world community on the United Nations as an honest broker in international disputes. Our emphasis on domestic issues centered on the national deficit and resulted in a scramble by Federal departments for the scarce dollars left after severe budget reductions. This manifested itself in a much reduced United States Department of Defense dependent on crisis response instead of forward deployed forces. The Air Force developed its new doctrine around this concept of Global Reach/Global Power. Global Reach/Global Power is accomplished by a smaller, highly capable force with the ability to respond rapidly with decisive power anywhere in the world. To be successful, every specialty in the Air Force must be able to transition from peacetime to war in minimum time and deploy without any loss of capability. This paper promotes several steps which will make the Security Police more capable of performing its mission in both peace and war. It includes broadening the Security Police mission to accurately reflect all its functions in support of Global Reach/Global Power, equipping and training the entire specialty so that it is packaged to support any contingency in minimum time, and incorporating jointness throughout the career field from doctrine to training. Finally these proposals provide the United States Air Force an organic force which operates equally well in peace or war. Now more than ever, with shrinking defense dollars for replacement, it is critical that we protect each remaining airpower asset for Global Reach/Global Power.
Download or read book Global Reach Global Power Air Force Strategic Vision Past and Future written by BARBARA J. FAULKENBERRY. and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Future Operating Concept a View of the Air Force In 2035 written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force Future Operating Concept broadly portrays how the future Air Force will conduct its five core missions as part of a joint, interagency, or multinational force, or independently in support of national security objectives. The central idea is this: "In 2035, AF forces will leverage operational agility as a way to adapt swiftly to any situation or enemy action. Operational agility is the ability to rapidly generate -and shift among -multiple solutions for a given challenge." By using operational agility as a guiding principle in the conduct of our core missions, we can preserve the Air Force's ability to act quickly in response to any challenge. Through application of this central idea, we describe our vision for how future Air Force forces may operate. The Air Force seeks bold and innovative approaches to its core missions, and success will also depend on close relationships with partners, particularly the members of the joint team. The ideas in this concept form a basis for examination, experimentation, and capability development planning for building the Air Force of the future. We now face another of those crucial moments in time. The dynamic, complex future is already beginning to challenge us. It is time for this generation of Airmen to develop a way to succeed. We invite you to read about our concept and visualize how Air Force forces of the future may contribute to a strong National defense, support for our allies and partners, and a free and stable world for all.Contents: Concept for Future air Force Operations * Air Force Core Missions - 2035 * Implications * ConclusionWhile the AF Future Operating Concept portrays skilled Airmen employing advanced technology in innovative ways to deter and defeat adversaries, it also emphasizes that the nature of warfare will not change over the next two decades. War will remain a clash of wills between thinking adversaries, and it will occur in an environment of uncertainty and rapid change. However, the character of warfare is becoming far less predictable and more complex. No technology or technique will eliminate the metaphorical fog and friction of warfare, and no military advantage will go unchallenged by adversaries seeking to achieve their objectives and deny us ours. While war will remain an instrument of policy, with associated constraints/restraints and specified missions for military forces, navigating the relationship between policy and war will be even more challenging in the complex future.The AFSEA, which compiles the expert analyses of the future environment across the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and think tanks, highlights that the era in which the United States can project power globally essentially uncontested has ended. It identifies four emerging trends that are highly likely to characterize the future: increasing speed and proliferation of technological change, geopolitical instability, increasing scarcity of natural resources, and an increasingly important and vulnerable global commons. The AFSEA uses these trends to derive six emerging trends with implications for the Air Force: 1) adversaries' acquisition and development of capabilities to challenge the U.S.; 2) increasing importance or frequency of irregular, urban, humanitarian, and intelligence operations; 3) increasing challenges to deterrence; 4) energy costs; 5) exploiting new technology opportunities; and 6) challenges of climate change. The rapid pace of change occurring throughout the world acts as a common thread between these trends and implications, and compounds the uncertainty and complexity of the future environment.
Download or read book How the Few Became the Proud written by Heather Venable and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and therefore it turned to an image to ensure its institutional survival. The process by which a maligned group of nineteenth-century naval policemen began to consider themselves to be elite warriors benefited from the active engagement of Marine officers with the Corps' historical record as justification for its very being. Rather than look forward and actively seek out a mission that could secure their existence, late nineteenth-century Marines looked backward and embraced the past. They began to justify their existence by invoking their institutional traditions, their many martial engagements, and their claim to be the nation's oldest and proudest military institution. This led them to celebrate themselves as superior to soldiers and sailors. Although there are countless works on this hallowed fighting force, How the Few Became the Proud is the first to explore how the Marine Corps crafted such powerful myths.
Download or read book The Future of Air Power in the Aftermath of the Gulf War written by Robert L. Pfaltzgraff and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reflects the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "The United States Air Force: Aerospace Challenges and Missions in the 1990s," sponsored by the USAF and Tufts University. The 20 contributors comment on the pivotal role of airpower in the war with Iraq and address issues and choices facing the USAF, such as the factors that are reshaping strategies and missions, the future role and structure of airpower as an element of US power projection, and the aerospace industry's views on what the Air Force of the future will set as its acquisition priorities and strategies. The authors agree that aerospace forces will be an essential and formidable tool in US security policies into the next century. The contributors include academics, high-level military leaders, government officials, journalists, and top executives from aerospace and defense contractors.
Download or read book Reach and Power written by Ron Dick and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force roles and missions A History written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century witnessed the emergence of three-dimensionality in war: surface forces flow became prey for attackers operating above and below the earth and its oceans. The aerial weapon, prophesied for centuries, became a reality, as did air power projection forces. This insightful book by Warren A. Trest traces the doctrinal underpinnings of the modern United States Air Force, the world's only global air force. We the men and women who serve in the Air Force, but also our fellow airmen in America's other military services are the heirs and beneficiaries of a long heritage of doctrinal development and military thought. Our predecessors pursued a vision of airborne global reach and power that often put them at odds with those who could not break free of the confines of conventional thought and lock-step traditionalism. Fortunately, they had the courage of their convictions and the faith in their vision to continue to pursue the goal of global air power despite such resistance. Today, America is a genuine aerospace power, and that pioneering vision dating to the days of the Wright brothers, has expanded to encompass operations in space and between the mediums of air and space. As we approach the new millennium, it is well to ponder the lessons and the history of how a small group of truly gifted airmen transformed their nation's military establishment, and, in so doing, the world around them.
