AS Class Notes (3/23)

Airpower

The ability to project military power through control and exploitation in, from, and through the air

Military Spacepower

The ability to accomplish military objectives, in, from, and to the space domain.

Command and Control (C2)

The exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned forces.

Doctrine

A set of rules to show how information has been used in the past to enable success; a guide or rulebook. It describes and guides proper use of airpower and space power.

Air Superiority

Airpower's primary role in joint air operations is to achieve control of the air (freedom from attack and the freedom to attack). It is the essential precondition to successful military operations.

Global Precision Attack

The ability to hold any target on the planet at risk or strike rapidly and persistently with a wide range of munitions; any target, any time.

Rapid Global Mobility

The rapid movement of resources to, from, and within a theater by air; delivery on demand.

Global ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance)

Synchronizes sensors, assets, processing, exploitation, and dissemination to provide situational awareness of the battlespace and minimize uncertainty about adversaries and their capabilities.

Command & Control (C2)

The central joint function that integrates all other functions through authority and direction by a designated commander over assigned forces.

Space Control

The activities required to contest and control the space domain, consisting of offensive and defensive counterspace operations.

Global Mission Operations

Delivering space effects in support of military operations, ensuring the US can out-see, out-shoot, out-maneuver, and out-communicate any adversary.

Space Access

The ability to move and support equipment and personnel into, from, and through the space domain ("sets the space theater").

Global Vigilance

The ability to gain and maintain awareness anywhere (C2, Joint-Task).

Global Reach

The ability to project military capability responsively — with unsurpassed velocity and precision — anywhere.

Global Power

The ability to hold at risk or strike any target anywhere.

Avoid Operational Surprise

Space forces must be able to detect and preempt any perturbations in the operational environment that could compromise joint force ability to achieve space superiority.

Deny First-Mover Advantage

Space forces must have the capability and resiliency to deter or overcome an adversary's first strike in space, making it impractical and self-defeating.

Conduct Responsible Counterspace Operations

Space forces must be able to conduct a sequence of military actions designed to work in tandem with joint operations.

Orbital Segment

Systems operating in the space domain (satellites).

Terrestrial Segment

Systems in land, air, and maritime domains (ground stations, user terminals).

Link Segment

Systems in the electromagnetic spectrum (uplinks, downlinks, crosslinks).

OCA

Offensive Counterair

DCA

Defensive Counterair

IAMD

Integrated Air & Missile Defense

CAS

Close Air Support

SEAD

Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses

A2AD

Anti-Access, Area Denial

EMSO

Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations

JADC2

Joint All-Domain Command & Control

JADO

Joint All-Domain Operations

CC-DC-DE

Centralized Command/Distributed Control/Decentralized Execution

AOC

Air Operations Center

JFACC

Joint Force Air Component Commander

ACA

Airspace Control Authority

AADC

Area Air Defense Commander