Download or read book USAF Quick Reaction Forces written by David K. Mann and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Management of Airborne Quick Reaction Capability QRC Programs in the Air Force written by Richard B. Aldrich (MAJ, USAF.) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Short of War written by A. Timothy Warnock and published by . This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Project CHECO Southeast Asia Report USAF Quick Reaction Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the evolution of the*alert role of F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers in Southeast Asia air-to-ground combat operations. Seventh Air Force implemented the quick reaction concept as a management tool to promote the effective allocation of air resources under circumstances of limited targets and variable weather conditions. Through the use of documentary evidence and interviews conducted with individuals involved in Seventh Air Force air operations, this study traces the employment of the quick reaction concept from its inception in 1970 through April 1973.

Download or read book Operations Command Posts Air Force Material Command Supplement Air Force Manual 10 207 written by U.S. Air Force and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.1.1. Command post operations furthers AFPD 10-25 guidance by serving as the focal point for Command and Control for commanders during routine operations, emergencies, contingencies, and increased readiness. The Command Post is a direct representative of the commander and serves as the sole agency responsible for executing Command Post-related Command and Control activities. 1.1.2. The installation Command Post is a wing staff agency organized directly under the wing function. Command Post Managers are tasked with the responsibility of operating the Command Post on behalf of the wing commander. As such, either the wing commander, vice wing commander, or Director of Staff will be the reporting official for the Chief, Command and Control Operations or Superintendent if there is no Chief assigned (T-2).

Download or read book Defending Air Bases in an Age of Insurgency written by Shannon Caudill and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology discusses the converging operational issues of air base defense and counterinsurgency. It explores the diverse challenges associated with defending air assets and joint personnel in a counterinsurgency environment. The authors are primarily Air Force officers from security forces, intelligence, and the office of special investigations, but works are included from a US Air Force pilot and a Canadian air force officer. The authors examine lessons from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts as they relate to securing air bases and sustaining air operations in a high-threat counterinsurgency environment. The essays review the capabilities, doctrine, tactics, and training needed in base defense operations and recommend ways in which to build a strong, synchronized ground defense partnership with joint and combined forces. The authors offer recommendations on the development of combat leaders with the depth of knowledge, tactical and operational skill sets, and counterinsurgency mind set necessary to be effective in the modern asymmetric battlefield.

Download or read book Apollo s Warriors written by Michael E. Haas and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a fascinating insider's view of U.S.A.F. special operations, this volume brings to life the critical contributions these forces have made to the exercise of air & space power. Focusing in particular on the period between the Korean War & the Indochina wars of 1950-1979, the accounts of numerous missions are profusely illustrated with photos & maps. Includes a discussion of AF operations in Europe during WWII, as well as profiles of Air Commandos who performed above & beyond the call of duty. Reflects on the need for financial & political support for restoration of the forces. Bibliography. Extensive photos & maps. Charts & tables.

Download or read book Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air Force Handbook 1 written by U. S. Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook implements AFPD 36-22, Air Force Military Training. Information in this handbook is primarily from Air Force publications and contains a compilation of policies, procedures, and standards that guide Airmen's actions within the Profession of Arms. This handbook applies to the Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard. This handbook contains the basic information Airmen need to understand the professionalism required within the Profession of Arms. Attachment 1 contains references and supporting information used in this publication. This handbook is the sole source reference for the development of study guides to support the enlisted promotion system. Enlisted Airmen will use these study guide to prepare for their Promotion Fitness Examination (PFE) or United States Air Force Supervisory Examination (USAFSE).

Download or read book Immediate Reach Immediate Power written by Office of Air Force History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multiple challenges America faces today calls for rapid responsive, global air power. The answer is the United States Air Force's (USAF) Air Expeditionary Force (AEF). An AEF consists of aircraft wings, groups, or squadrons attached to a USAF numbered air force deployed under the command of a U.S. Military Joint Commander-in-Chief (CING) of a geographic region, during a period of increased operations tempo. An increased operations tempo is invariably associated with U.S. diplomatic, political, military or humanitarian actions either underway or in prospect. Also, an AEF unit deploys as a composite force, one made up several different aircraft types within the same unit, rather than in accordance with past USAF practice where a combat unit consists of only one type (and model) of aircraft. By taking advantage of the intrinsic strengths of air power-speed, range, and flexibility-the AEF provides a logistically lean, flexible, tailored, quick-response force to the CINC.

Download or read book Air Expeditionary Force written by Frederick D. Van Valkenburg and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's world is marked by accelerating change which will propel us into the next century. As the sole global superpower, our strategic interests are also global. The United States will continue to influence world events and the U.S. military provides the means to accomplish this through power projection. History has shown us that instability and conflict will continue to exist and the military has been effective in securing our national interests. However, our military's forward presence has diminished in the recent years due to downsizing. Our forces are now primarily CONUS based. Airpower's unique characteristics of speed, range, flexibility and lethality provide the capability to react quickly. The Air Expeditionary Force (AEF) is an operational concept providing the warfighting CINCs a light and lethal force across the spectrum of conflict. The AEF is the nation's premier power projection force, both now and the future.

Download or read book The Quick Response Air Force written by Office of Air Force History and U S Air and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his National Security Strategy, President William J. Clinton emphasized that the United States will remain globally engaged for many years to come, and that an integral part of that engagement will be the projection of military power. In the midst of budget cuts, personnel reductions, and base closures, the United States Department of Defense (DOD) is in a dilemma. It is being called on to be the dominant instrument of power in many regions of the world while its people and equipment are being stretched to their limits. Senior leaders are expressing serious concern for the operations tempo and are looking for relief. Unfortunately, the post-cold-war, multi-polar world is producing complex and unpredictable challenges with no end in sight. The DOD is being tasked to deter aggression, provide regional stability, support emerging democracies, and provide disaster relief. In many cases these tasks depend heavily on a forward presence. Prior to base closures and draw downs, much of this presence was in the form of permanent overseas bases and large numbers of forces transported to any place in the world. This is no longer the case and the question now is how to efficiently and effectively meet these challenges. Airpower offers the balanced solution. Its responsiveness, global reach, and flexibility generally give it an advantage over other military instruments in unexpected crises. Airpower is becoming the dominant quick-response weapon of choice in joint operations for the National Command Authorities (NCA). This study asks: How should the US military structure its forces to provide the NCA an on-call, sustainable, and responsive airpower force worldwide? This analysis concludes the answer is to reorganize existing forces into a Quick Response Airpower Force (QRAF). The QRAF concept involves a force structure that can help reduce the operations tempo in the DOD by replacing forward presence with a credible continental United States-based, quick response, deterrent force. This group of forces can be tailored to the unpredictable challenges of the future. In addition, it can allow the NCA the use of a force while avoiding putting a significant (and possibly unpopular) number of Americans in harm's way. The QRAF concept is divided into three levels: Level 1-a standing QRAF of collocated units, organized, trained and equipped for tasking at anytime, anywhere; Level 2-a preplanned QRAF of geographically separated units organized and designed well in advance for a specific deployment; and Level 3-an ad hoc QRAF employed if Levels 1 and 2 are already occupied or committed. This study presents a discussion and background of the problem, its importance, related problems, and past attempts at solutions. It offers a framework describing a quick response force and what it should be capable of doing. After discussing the current US Air Force attempts to provide this capability, the composite wing and the Airpower Expeditionary Force, the force of tomorrow-the three-tiered QRAF-is presented. The study concludes with recommendations for further study, limitations of the analysis, and its implications. Airpower is becoming the flexible, no-notice weapon of choice. Part of this airpower is the United States Air Force and part of the Air Force should be organized into the QRAF.

Download or read book Air Expeditionary Force written by Frederick D. Van Valkenburg and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's world is marked by accelerating change which will propel us into the next century. As the sole global superpower, our strategic interests are also global. The United States will continue to influence world events and the U.S. military provides the means to accomplish this through power projection. History has shown us that instability and conflict will continue to exist and the military has been effective in securing our national interests. However, our military's forward presence has diminished in the recent years due to downsizing. Our forces are now primarily CONUS based. Airpower's unique characteristics of speed, range, flexibility and lethality provide the capability to react quickly. The Air Expeditionary Force (AEF) is an operational concept providing the warfighting CINCs a light and lethal force across the spectrum of conflict. The AEF is the nation's premier power projection force, both now and the future.

Download or read book Lightning Over Water written by John Matsumura and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental strength of today's Army lies in its ability to fight and win amajor theater-level war, and this capability exists through a deliberate intent to field the most capable mechanized force possible. It is easy to argue that the Army leadership succeeded, since no anticipated enemy force can match the firepower and maneuver capability of a combined arms mechanized U.S. force, equipped with the M1-series Abramsmain battle tank, the M2-series Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, and the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. Nonetheless, as the world continues to thaw out from the imposed stability of a bipolar superpower rivalry, the likelihood of major theater-level war is giving way to increased numbers of smaller regional conflicts and crises. New crises and conflicts are continuing to emerge around the world, and as the frequency of such events continuesto increase, so does the need to adjust the U.S. capability for direct response to, and intervention within, these situations. This book represents a compilation of research drawn from numerous studies conducted in the past few years on the topic of improving light air-deployable forces. The focus is on new operational concepts along with the underlyingenabling technologies. Three very different means for improving rapid-reaction capability are considered and analyzed in detail, with both strengths and weaknesses included in the assessment. A framework that addresses the process of designing such a force is incorporated.

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 The Quick Response Air Force written by G. Larry Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his National Security Strategy, President William J. Clinton emphasized that the United States will remain globally engaged for many years to come, and that an integral part of that engagement will be the projection of military power. In the midst of budget cuts, personnel reductions, and base closures, the United States Department of Defense (DOD) is in a dilemma. It is being called on to be the dominant instrument of power in many regions of the world while its people and equipment are being stretched to their limits. Senior leaders are expressing serious concern for the operations tempo and are looking for relief. Unfortunately, the post-cold-war, multipolar world is producing complex and unpredictable challenges with no end in sight. The DOD is being tasked to deter aggression, provide regional stability, support emerging democracies, and provide disaster relief. In many cases these tasks depend heavily on a forward presence. Prior to base closures and drawdowns, much of this presence was in the form of permanent over seas bases and large numbers of forces transported to any place in the world. This is no longer the case and the question now is how to efficiently and effectively meet these challenges. Airpower offers the balanced solution. Its responsiveness, global reach, and flexibility generally give it an advantage over other military instruments in unexpected crises. Airpower is becoming the dominant quick-response weapon of choice in joint operations for the National Command Authorities (NCA). This study asks: How should the US military structure its forces to provide the NCA an on-call, sustainable, and responsive airpower force worldwide? This analysis concludes the answer is to reorganize existing forces into a Quick Response Airpower Force (QRAF). The QRAF concept involves a force structure that can help reduce the operations tempo in the DOD by replacing forward pres- ence with a credible continental United States-based, quick respon.

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.