Download or read book Perspectives on Theater Air Campaign Planning written by David E. Thaler and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document reports on independent, exploratory research on air campaign planning and execution. Its purpose is threefold: (1) to provide observations on the current processes and capabilities for planning and executing air operations in theater conflicts; (2) to identify key issues associated with those processes; and (3) to recommend analytic concentrations for future research. Our primary focus is at the broadest level of campaign planning and execution- activities flowing from the definition of campaign and operational objectives down to the allocation, apportionment, and tasking of forces. Our work involved interviews with a variety of USAF organizations. We did not explicitly interview personnel in other service or joint organizations; hence, we are plainly offering a USAF perspective on campaign planning. However, most of the USAF entities we talked with are intimately involved in joint and combined operations and planning, and Air Force doctrine and perceptions will likely play an important role in shaping future air campaigns. Therefore, we believe that this report has relevance beyond the confines of the USAF planning community. (KAR) P. 9.
Download or read book The Air Campaign written by John A. Warden, III and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first analyses of the pure art of planning the aerial dimensions of war. Explores the complicated connection between air superiority and victory in war. Focuses on the use of air forces at the operational level in a theater of war. Presents fascinating historical examples, stressing that the mastery of operational-level strategy can be the key to winning future wars. 20 photos. Bibliography.
Download or read book The Air Campaign Planning For Combat written by John A. Warden III and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the short history of air warfare, no nation with superior air forces has ever lost a war to the force of enemy arms. Air superiority by itself, however, no longer guarantees victory. This book, one of the first analyses of the pure art of planning the aerial dimension of war, explores the complicated connection between air superiority and victory in war. In The Air Campaign, Colonel John A. Warden III focuses on the use of air forces at the operational level in a theater of war. The most compelling task for the theater commander, he argues, is translating national war objectives into tactical plans at operational levels. He presents his case by drawing on fascinating historical examples, stressing that the mastery of operational-level strategy can be the key to winning future wars. Colonel Warden shows us how to use air power more effectively-through rough mass, concentration, and economy of forces-because, he warns, the United States no longer holds an edge in manpower, production capacity, and technology. Simply put, an air force inferior in numbers must fight better and smarter to win. This book offers planners greater understanding of how to use air power for future air campaigns against a wide variety of enemy capabilities in a wide variety of air operations. As the reader will see, the classic principles of war also apply to air combat. One of the author's important contributions is to demonstrate that perception to those whose grave responsibility one day may be to plan and carry through a victorious air campaign.
Download or read book Evolution of the Air Campaign Planning Process and the Contingency Theater Automated Planning System CTAPS written by Daniel Gonzales and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes an examination of the air campaign planning process, including observation of how the process was conducted in recent exercises and a review of how the process was performed during the Gulf War. A number of suggested changes to the process are recommended that, in conjunction with changes to the Contingency Theater Automated Planning System (CTAPS), could improve the process significantly and reduce the time needed for production of the Air Tasking Order from 48 to 24 hours. CTAPS capabilities were examined as a part of this study. The CTAPS 5.0x and planned 6.0 architectures were reviewed and suggestions presented that could enhance the operational capabilities of the system. This report should be of interest to project managers and monitors of CTAPS and related programs, to those interested in the air campaign planning process, and to those responsible for developing Department of Defense or Air Force information system architectures.
Download or read book US Air Force Air Campaign Planning Paying the Bills Or Paying the Price written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph discusses the question of whether the United States Air Force (USAF) Air Campaign Planning Process is compatible with the theater campaign planning process outlined in joint publications such as Joint Pub 3: Doctrine for Joint Operations and Joint Pub 5,001: JTTP for Campaign Planning. This paper begins with a comparison of key terms used in the two planning processes, joint and USAF. These terms provide a basis of comparison and analysis for the discussion of the joint campaign planning cycle as outlined in Joint Pub 5-00.1 and the air campaign planning process from the Joint Doctrine Air Campaign Course (JDACC) 'Air Campaign Planning Handbook.' The monograph compares the two planning processes and analyzes their potential integration in terms of planning process inputs and outputs. The monograph concludes that the USAF air campaign planning process is, in fact, doctrinally compatible with the joint campaign planning cycle. Although Air Force doctrine acknowledges the potential for a stand alone campaign, the major focus of the USAF planning effort is for an air campaign plan, subordinate to the theater campaign plan, which focuses operations and resources towards the achievement of theater objectives.
Download or read book Air Campaign written by John WARDEN and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Air Campaign," Colonel John A. Warden III focuses on the use of air forces at the operational level in a theater of war. The most compelling task for the theater commander, he argues, is translating national war objectives into tactical plans at operational levels. He presents his case by drawing on fascinating historical examples, stressing that the mastery of operational-level strategy can be the key to winning future wars. Colonel Warden shows us how to use air power more effectively -- through mass, concentration, and economy of forces -- because, he warns, the United States no longer holds an edge in manpower, production capacity, and technology. Simply put, an air force inferior in numbers must fight better and smarter to win. This book offers planners greater understanding of how to use air power for future air campaigns against a wide variety of enemy capabilities in a wide variety of air operations. As the reader will see, the classic principles of war also apply to air combat. One of the author's important contributions is to demonstrate that perception to those whose grave responsibility one day may be to plan and carry through a victorious air campaign.
Download or read book Planning for Theater Air Campaigns written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Air Campaign written by John A. Warden and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Campaign Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning for Theater Warfare Using the Concept of Massive Air Strike to Insure Success written by Abdel H. Sorour and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics include: Historical background about the role of airpower in achieving victory and the development of this role through the military history; The effect of technology on the current classification of air force missions; The author's views on existing interrelations among these missions in the operational theater and his perspective on reclassification of Air Force missions; and a description of Air Force objectives during the Air Land Battle and the author's suggestions about using the concept of Massive Air Strikes to achieve these objectives. The study emphasizes the planning process and the calculations required to estimate the expected relative results and their effect on the theater air force's role in the Air Land Battle.
Download or read book The Air Campaign written by John A. Warden III, Ventrust.inc Ventrust.inc and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-06-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force staff quickly came up with an air campaign, the brainchild of Colonel John Warden, a brilliant, brash fighter pilot and a leading Air Force intellectual on the use of airpower... Warden's original plan would undergo numerous modifications…but his original concept remained the heart of the Desert Storm air war. Colin PowellColin Powell, My American JourneySince its original publication The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat has been translated into more than a half dozen languages and is in use at military colleges throughout the world. This book would later serve as the basis for the planning of much of the Gulf War air campaign. Generals Schwarzkopf and Powell credited Col. Warden with creating the air campaign that defeated Iraq in the Gulf War. This new edition includes a new epilogue where Col. Warden has refined and extended many of the ideas presented in the original book. The most significant of these refinements is the development of the theory of the enemy as a system-which flows from the center of gravity concepts developed in the first edition.
Download or read book Airwar written by Phillip S. Meilinger and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays cover a wide range of subjects and tell the story of air power's evolution over the past century.
Download or read book Airpower Advantage written by Diane Putney and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review From The Air & Space Power Journal... I have read most of the literature on the planning of the Gulf War air campaign (GWAC). Relative to other documents on the subject, Diane Putney's Airpower Advantage is the most accurate, complete, and unbiased account available to date. A lucid writer and meticulous researcher, the author substantiates her statements with references to firsthand documentation of critical events. The book uniquely ties together the key decisions and briefings that occurred in Saudi Arabia; Tampa, Florida; Washington, DC; and locations around the Southwest Asia theater. Although Putney wrote this account shortly after the Gulf War, it has taken 10 years to declassify the text, gain publication-release authority, and make available the book's critical insights. The author provides a tutorial on how planning a major theater war unfolds and discusses its key elements: limiting factors, logistical concerns and requirements, command relationships, and the importance of personalities specifically, the role of leadership in putting together an executable plan from disparate pieces. Readers gain complete and accurate understanding not only of the design and development of the GWAC, but also of the combatant commander's creation of his overall campaign plan and the integration of service components. Unlike some of the more myopic accounts of Operation Desert Storm, this book merges a number of viewpoints into a balanced, coherent whole, thus lending insight into the variety of planning elements, perspectives, and inputs that other books have either missed or avoided. It is also the first study to capture the importance of the effects-based planning approach used to design the GWAC. One finds here a wealth of perspectives and case studies that can assist future planners. For example, with respect to the role of the joint force air component commander (JFACC) as area air defense commander, Putney summarizes Gen Charles A. Horner's action as follows: "Grafting onto the host nation's organization precluded other [US Central Command] components from establishing their own area air defense system," that would have inhibited the development of an integrated and effective theaterwide system (p. 108). Putney also allows readers to examine the effective style employed by General Horner as he worked with other services to meet objectives (p. 114). Chapters 6 and 9 offer Desert Storm case studies of the failure of intelligence institutions and architectures to adapt to the demands of precision warfare and effects-based assessment. Unwavering adherence to an established intelligence process, regardless of the demands of the situation, hampered bomb damage assessment and rendered intelligence support of the overall effort less than optimal. At the same time, we learn how the integration of intelligence and operations might enhance their efforts. In addition to addressing the influence of different players, the author accurately captures the magnitude of the tasks that General Horner, as JFACC, adroitly wove into a cohesive air campaign. Such insights validate the utility of a JFACC, an organizational construct first employed in Desert Storm. From General Horner's example we learn that a great commander does not micromanage but leads best by providing operational-level guidance. The real-world evidence found in this book-especially the challenges and elements involved in designing a campaign plan-will prove invaluable to the professional military education and training of our country's future leaders. For that reason, I almost wish Putney had given it a different title because the insights found therein do not limit themselves to airpower but address the concerns of all leaders and planners in each of our military services. Clearly, Airpower Advantage merits inclusion in the required reading lists of anyone with an interest in campaign planning. Maj Gen David A. Deptula Hickam AFB, Hawaii
Download or read book Evolution of the Air Campaign Planning Process and the Contingency Theater Automated Planning System CTAPS written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines CTAPS and the air campaign planning process and proposes modifications to both that will help remedy these deficiencies and dramatically increase the responsiveness of U.S. air forces in large conflicts. It examines the functionality of CTAPS and the structure of the air campaign planning process in detail. Provided is a top-level description of the system and a summary of findings for improving CTAPS and the air campaign planning process. CTAPS is a complex automated support system that runs on a large networked set of computer work stations. Because of its ancestry and the evolutionary acquisition approach used in its development, CTAPS is a complex combination of applications that have been modified to run together with minimal interference in the same client-server computing environment. The four key applications used in the ATO production process in version 5.0x of CTAPS and the key data flows in the process are shown in Figure S.1. There are many more applications in CTAPS 5.0x; however, for simplicity we have included only the major ones in the figure.
Download or read book Theater Campaign Planning written by Department of Defense and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook, “Theater Campaign Planning,” is intended to provide combatant command planners with a conceptual approach to developing theater campaign plans (TCPs). It is based on insights from a variety of sources over the last several years. This booklet is designed to assist planners by presenting a broad approach to TCPs and country-level planning that considers ongoing security cooperation efforts, current operations, the Phase 0 component of contingency plans, and resourcing constraints as part of the combatant commander's implementation of his strategic approach to the area of responsibility. Doing so successfully requires some modification of traditional operational planning approaches and an appreciation that every Department of Defense (DoD) action, word, and image communicates the real or perceived intent of DoD and the United States Government (USG).This handbook serves several purposes: Present a common intellectual approach to TCP and country planning, that provides CCMDs enough flexibility to meet their specific requirements; Improve the integration of posture, joint operations and steady-state security cooperation with the Phase 0 component of contingency planning—setting the theater; Explain where and how the Department's planning efforts align with the interagency, specifically but not limited to Department of State and USAID; Help CCMD planners build resource-informed TCPs that (1) identify a total resource demand signal to the Department and other government agencies, (2) link resource expenditures to CCMD objectives, and (3) explain the strategic or operational risks associated with resource shortfalls linked to theater end states. Achieving these purposes will enable the Department to take a significant stride forward in designing and executing well-integrated, resource-informed TCPs and country plans.
Download or read book A Framework for Planning the Employment of Air Power in Theater War written by Edward L. Warner and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Note argues for the utility of developing and adhering to an explicit overall framework to guide the use of air power in support of U.S. military strategies. It offers a conceptual framework to inform Air Force planning for the development of concepts of operations that can assist in acquisition of equipment and the formation of organizational elements. The main feature of the framework is its identification of the range of functions--surveillance, assessment, command, control, asset generation, and engagement/attack--that must be executed sequentially and repetitively to perform effectively key air power missions. The framework can be used to develop concepts of operations for the application of air power across the full range of strategic and tactical missions. In this Note, however, discussion is confined to its applicability in the context of a major theater conflict fought with conventional weapons.
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.
