Download or read book The Readiness Posture of the U S Air Force written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Readiness Posture of the U s Air Force written by United States Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The readiness posture of the U.S. Air Force : hearing before the Subcommittee on Readiness of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, hearing held April 24, 2013.
Download or read book Are We Ready written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Readiness written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United States Air Force Posture Statement written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Department of Defense s Readiness Posture written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Service Posture Readiness and Budget Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Military Forces in FY 2020 written by Mark F. Cancian and published by Center for Strategic & International Studies. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report from the CSIS International Security Program analyzes the U.S. military forces in FY 2020, their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges, as the United States attempts to align its forces with a strategy of long-term great power competition.
Download or read book Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measuring Strategic Readiness written by Bradley Martin and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors explore a more expansive approach to readiness assessments that goes beyond the narrow lens of operational readiness and considers a broader set of dimensions that could affect readiness outcomes.
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 Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Readiness written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Posture Triangle written by Stacie L. Pettyjohn and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They discuss factors that affect peacetime access risk, and they offer insights on sizing USAF overseas forces. The authors find that a global posture is necessary to maintain three critical U.S. security requirements: 0́−Strategic anchors0́+ are necessary to maintain security ties to close partners and key regions; access to forward operating locations is necessary to create and sustain operational effects; and support links on foreign territory are necessary to sustain global military activities. Regarding where the USAF needs access and basing, the authors identified 13 strategic anchor countries, 11 basing clusters, and 35 en route airfields as particularly valuable.
Download or read book Military Readiness written by Richard K. Betts and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout most of American history, U.S. military forces proved unready for the wars that were thrust upon them and suffered costly reverses in early battles. During the Cold War, for the first time, U.S. defense policy tried to maintain high readiness in peacetime. But now, with the Cold War over and defense budgets falling, what will happen to U.S. military forces? Will they revert to a state of unpreparedness or find a new balance? Politicians and military planners alike have found this crucial issue especially difficult to deal with because they have often misunderstood what readiness really means. In this book, security expert Richard Betts surveys problems in developing and measuring combat readiness before, during, and after the Cold War. He analyzes why attempts to maximize it often have counterproductive effects, and how confusions in technical concepts cause political controversy. The book explores conflicts between two objectives that are both vital but work against each other because they compete for resources: operational readiness to fight immediately, and structural readiness—the number of organized units that increase military power, but require time during a crisis to gear up for combat. Betts also discusses the problem brought on by the Cold War and plunging defense budgets: mobilization readiness—the plans and arrangements needed to shorten the time for recreating a large military if it once again becomes necessary. Betts offers new ideas for understanding the dilemmas and tradeoffs that underlie debates on how readiness should be maintained in peacetime, and he explores the strategic consequences of different choices.
Download or read book Peacetime Physical Fitness and Its Effect on Combat Readiness written by Frank J. Destadio and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is rapidly becoming a nation of soft, out of shape men and women who can not endure, for an hour, the kind of stress that our ancestors faced daily. Today, the typical American is older physically than years give him the right to be. Fitness in the military is a time-honored and unquestionable axiom. Yet, there is little objective knowledge as to what criteria of fitness are necessary to maintain combat readiness. More than ten years ago it became apparent that, from a physical fitness/healthy lifestyle perspective, the military was not in an optimal readiness posture. In February 1980, the President requested the Secretary of Defense provide him an assessment of the Services physical fitness programs. This request led to a Department of Defense symposium on military fitness in June 1980. The symposium reviewed existing fitness policies and programs. The result of the symposium, was a revised DOD directive 1308.1; Physical Fitness and Weight Control. Was this enough? Are the current peacetime physical fitness programs effective? Do they adequately prepare our military to withstand the rigors of combat? This individual study project reviews these and other questions about the services peacetime physical fitness programs. Fitness is defined, guidance is reviewed, current efforts are analyzed to determine their validity, and recommendations are provided -- all from an Air Force perspective.
Download or read book U S Military Forces in FY 2021 written by Mark F. Cancian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSIS senior adviser Mark Cancian annually produces a series of white papers on U.S. military forces, including their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges. This report is a compilation of these papers and takes a deep look at each of the military services, the new Space Force, special operations forces, DOD civilians, and contractors in the FY 2021 budget. This report further includes a foreword regarding how the Biden administration might approach decisions facing the military forces, drawing on insights from the individual chapters.
Download or read book Department of the Air Force Aircraft Force Posture Structure Reductions written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
