Download or read book United States Central Command s Intratheater Airlift written by M. Shane Turner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Incorporating successful business practices from the FedEx Corporation's commercial air cargo system can increase productivity and effectiveness for U.S. Central Command's intratheater airlift system. The goal of this academic comparison is to recommend strategies for improvement and courses of action to make the intratheater airlift system more effective at supporting the warfighter in future conflicts. Although research on improving the intratheater airlift system is not new, this topic remains relevant as a continual problem area for the Joint Force Commander. Many researchers have improved specific aspects of the intratheater airlift system."--Abstract.
Download or read book A Framework for Enhancing Airlift Planning and Execution Capabilities Within the Joint Expeditionary Movement System written by Robert S. Tripp and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent operations have shed light on shortfalls in Air Force intratheater airlift. Using an expanded strategies-to-tasks framework, the authors assess current intratheater airlift processes, organizations, doctrine, training, and systems. This report catalogues identified shortfalls and recommends options for improving the Theater Distribution System. The authors recommend separation of supply, demand, and integrator roles and adoption of a closed-loop planning and execution process.
Download or read book Integrating Joint Intratheater Airlift Command and Control with the Needs of the Modular Army a Perspective of Current and Past Nonlinear Operation written by U S Army Command and General Staff Coll and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The command and control of today's intratheater airlift system, as seen in doctrine and in application, is complicated and conflicted. As the Army continues its transformation to the modular force, requirements for responsive and flexible intratheater airlift have grown. In contrast, existing Joint and Air Force intratheater airlift doctrine does not address these needs, as seen in recent operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Presented in this book are two historical case studies of past intratheater airlift efforts: Burma during World War II and the tactical airlift system of Vietnam. Both provide examples of distinct intratheater airlift command and control arrangements with similar attributes called for by Army transformation. Both case studies provide lessons in the application of theater airlift to support ground forces in a nonlinear battlefield. Coupled with identified failings in both doctrine and structure of the current theater distribution system, this book identifies requirements of theater airlift if it is to provide effective and efficient support to the modular force. With an understanding of current and past doctrine, structural evolutions of intratheater airlift, and the effects of each system, this book concludes with recommended changes to the intratheater airlift command and control structure to meet Army requirements.
Download or read book Keep on Trucking written by Nathan A. Allerheiligen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As the US Air Force (USAF) completes the drawdown from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the reduction of deployments and restructuring of budgets provide a rare opportunity to explore new intratheater employment models. There is potential to maximize the performance of intratheater airlift through the integration of an incentive-based entrepreneurial model for airlift scheduling, decision support, and process control. This paper considers three different distribution systems: the current military intratheater airlift system being executed by US Central Command (USCENTCOM); Walmart's domestic distribution network; and a hybrid system based upon the current intratheater airlift system, but altered to include entrepreneurial incentives and process improvements. Each system is illustrated by how it addresses each of five key factors: (1) incentives, (2) process management, (3) information technology support, (4) approval, validation, and prioritization of cargo, and (5) fleet balancing. The systems are analyzed along customer-focused parameters of responsiveness, flexibility, reliability, and efficiency. In the right circumstances, military leaders can apply natural market forces to military operations without sacrificing the oversight or control needed for emergency situations. Although there are significant cultural barriers to an entrepreneurial approach, the Air Force should develop a system that uses market incentives to improve the tools of the theater distribution system to maximize effectiveness while retaining high levels of efficiency."--Abstract.
Download or read book U S Strategic Airlift written by Jeffrey Record and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analysis of CENTCOM Commercial Intra theater Airlift Costs written by Fredric M. Oberson (MAJ, USAF.) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Airlift Doctrine written by Charles Miller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n this extremely comprehensive overview of airlift and air mobility, Colonel Miller shows how the worldwide orientation of American foreign policy, the numerous threats to free-world interests, and the speed and complexity of modern warfare have combined with political and resource constraints to produce today's airlift doctrine and force structure. Airlift is the movement of goods and people to where they are needed, when they are needed there. Since the 1920s there has been an evolving awareness and articulation of how to best organize, train, and equip airlift forces for that mission. The worldwide orientation of American foreign policy, the numerous threats to free world interests, and the speed and complexity of modern warfare have combined with political and resource constraints to produce today's airlift doctrine and force structure. Colonel Miller's study traces these many interrelationships to discover what critical airlift decisions were made, why they were made, and what they may mean in the future. Airlift is the backbone of deterrence. A properly structured and equipped airlift force is critical to the successful execution of the national military strategy. How we think about airlift and how we translate those thoughts into a meaningful expression of how to develop, deploy, and employ airlift forces is vital to the national defense. Colonel Miller's study is a definitive step in that important process.
Download or read book Integrating Joint Intratheater Airlift Command and Control with the Needs of the Modular Army A Perspective of Current and Past Nonlinear Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The command and control of today's intratheater airlift system, as seen in doctrine and in application, is complicated and conflicted. As the Army continues its transformation to the modular force, requirements for responsive and flexible intratheater airlift have grown. In contrast, existing Joint and Air Force intratheater airlift doctrine does not address these needs, as seen in recent operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Presented in this thesis are two historical case studies of past intratheater airlift efforts: Burma during World War II and the tactical airlift system of Vietnam. Both provide examples of distinct intratheater airlift command and control arrangements with similar attributes called for by Army transformation. Both case studies provide lessons in the application of theater airlift to support ground forces in a nonlinear battlefield. Coupled with identified failings in both doctrine and structure of the current theater distribution system, this thesis identifies requirements of theater airlift if it is to provide effective and efficient support to the modular force. With an understanding of current and past doctrine, structural evolutions of intratheater airlift, and the effects of each system, this thesis concludes with recommended changes to the intratheater airlift command and control structure to meet Army requirements.
Download or read book The MAC Flyer written by United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Transportation Command s USTRANSCOM Airlift Sealift and Surface Lift Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Airlift Hearings Eighty ninth Congress First and Second Sessions written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Military Airlift and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Framework for Enhancing Airlift Planning and Execution Capabilities Within the Joint Expeditionary Movement System written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines options for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of intratheater airlift operations within the military joint end-to-end multimodal movement system. The intratheater system, which serves the needs of deploying, redeploying, and sustaining forces during contingency operations, is part of the airlift component of the joint movement system. This report discusses the application of an expanded strategies-to-tasks (STT) decision support framework to Central Command's (CENTCOM's) theater distribution planning and execution. RAND uses the expanded STT framework to identify shortfalls and suggest, describe, and evaluate options for implementing improvements in current processes, organizations, doctrine, training, and systems. Specifically, they apply the framework to aid in improving planning and execution activities associated with developing airlift movement options in building and managing joint multimodal contingency movement networks. While the analysis centers on CENTCOM, the methodology and recommendations are relevant to other commands as well. The research for this report was completed in October 2004. The report should be of interest to combatant commanders and their staffs, mobility planners, logisticians, and planners throughout the Department of Defense (DoD), especially those in the Air Force and U.S. Transportation Command. The report is one of a series of RAND reports that address agile combat support issues in implementing the Aerospace Expeditionary Force (AEF).
Download or read book Air Force Journal of Logistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in support of combatant commanders. Accomplishing this mission rests on the ability of the Army to equip and move its forces to the battle and sustain them while they are engaged. Logistics provides the backbone for Army combat operations. Without fuel, ammunition, rations, and other supplies, the Army would grind to a halt. The U.S. military must be prepared to fight anywhere on the globe and, in an era of coalition warfare, to logistically support its allies. While aircraft can move large amounts of supplies, the vast majority must be carried on ocean going vessels and unloaded at ports that may be at a great distance from the battlefield. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have shown, the costs of convoying vast quantities of supplies is tallied not only in economic terms but also in terms of lives lost in the movement of the materiel. As the ability of potential enemies to interdict movement to the battlefield and interdict movements in the battlespace increases, the challenge of logistics grows even larger. No matter how the nature of battle develops, logistics will remain a key factor. Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations explores Army logistics in a global, complex environment that includes the increasing use of antiaccess and area-denial tactics and technologies by potential adversaries. This report describes new technologies and systems that would reduce the demand for logistics and meet the demand at the point of need, make maintenance more efficient, improve inter- and intratheater mobility, and improve near-real-time, in-transit visibility. Force Multiplying Technologies also explores options for the Army to operate with the other services and improve its support of Special Operations Forces. This report provides a logistics-centric research and development investment strategy and illustrative examples of how improved logistics could look in the future.
Download or read book So Many So Much So Far So Fast written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modifying Intratheater Airlift for Irregular Warfare written by Steven H. Stater and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intratheater airlift is an important aspect of Irregular Warfare. Dispersed operations involved in the many aspects of irregular warfare require the deployment, resupply, and redeployment and medical evacuation of forces to conduct these operations. As the personnel are spread over larger geographic areas, the ability to meet the needs of this force falls on intratheater airlift. This need for intratheater airlift to support irregular warfare is spelled out in Department of Defense, Air Force and Army doctrine. It is also has historical examples of supporting United States forces and host nation forces in Southeast Asia. This experience was not maintained and the Air Force has developed its current airlift force to support traditional warfare operations. The Air Force Special Operations Command is attacking the need for short takeoff and landing aircraft to support irregular warfare, but the general purpose forces are not responding to the need for a more varied airlift aircraft. The utility of using airlift for building partner capacity in aerospace operations has also been undersized. An airlift structure that supports U.S. irregular warfare operations should also support partner capacity with experienced aircrew and maintenance personnel with aircraft appropriate for the host nation.
Download or read book General Kenney Reports A Personal History of the Pacific War written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Kenney Reports is a classic account of a combat commander in action. General George Churchill Kenney arrived in the South- west Pacific theater in August 1942 to find that his command, if not in a shambles, was in dire straits. The theater commander, General Douglas MacArthur, had no confidence in his air element. Kenney quickly changed this situation. He organized and energized the Fifth Air Force, bringing in operational commanders like Whitehead and Wurtsmith who knew how to run combat air forces. He fixed the logistical swamp, making supply and maintenance supportive of air operations, and encouraging mavericks such as Pappy Gunn to make new and innovative weapons and to explore new tactics in airpower application. The result was a disaster for the Japanese. Kenney's airmen used air power-particularly heavily armed B-25 Mitchell bombers used as commerce destroyers-to savage Japanese supply lines, destroying numerous ships and effectively isolating Japanese garrisons. The classic example of Kenney in action was the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, which marked the attainment of complete Allied air dominance and supremacy over Japanese naval forces operating around New Guinea. In short, Kenney was a brilliant, innovative airman, who drew on his own extensive flying experiences to inform his decision-making. General Kenney Reports is a book that has withstood the test of time, and which should be on the shelf of every airman.
