Air Force Concepts and Military Strategy

Flashcards generated from lecture notes on Air Force concepts and military strategy.

What is Air Superiority?

Control of the air

What does Rapid Global Mobility provide?

Provides swift deployment of equipment and personnel for humanitarian relief

What is the purpose of ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance)?

Deliver timely and relevant, accurate info

What is Global Strike?

Ability to project military power, rapidly, flexibly, and a light foot print

What does Command and Control provide?

Provides access to reliable communications

What is Mission Command?

Empowering agile and adaptive airmen leaders to lead with commander intent

What is Commander Intent?

Commander expression of desire and to instate the why

What is Tailorable Force Packet?

Deciding what equipment you need for the UTC

What is Agile Combat?

Proactive reactive combat scheme that increases resiliency and survivability

What does ACE stand for?

Agility Combat Employment

What challenges does ACE address?

Adversarial technology advances, physical constraints, building permanent bases. Reduces freedom of movement in joint force operations

What is the Mind Set and Approach of Ready Airmen?

Airmen who are trained cross functional team to provide support to ACE

What is Mission Analysis?

Focuses the commander and the staff on the problem at hand and lays a foundation for effective planning analysis the mission identifying instate access the situation

What does COA stand for?

Course of Action

What is COA Development?

Focus developing and evaluating potential COA's

What is COA Comparison?

Refining, prioritizing, and further analyzing

What does JADO stand for?

Joint All Domain Operations in land, sea, air, space, and cyber

What is ACE in JADO?

Create political dilemmas for enemy, observe/orient decide and act, enable convergence across domains

What is Unity of Command?

Military under one command joint base with different branch command

What is Unity of Effort?

Same goals different commands

What is the Strategic Level?

National policy and is integral into national defense military strategies

What is the Operational Level?

Links strategies and tactical through campaign and operations

What is the Tactical level?

Day to day actions that help operations

What is the role of the Army?

Land power

What is Commitment?

Link between Navy and Marines core values

What is the Prime role of an NCO?

Supervise and lead airmen, conduct exercises and advise/assist officers

What is Coordination?

Cooperation, coordination integration with military operations. Unified actions

What is the difference between Law Enforcement vs Military roles?

Internal vs External peacekeeping

What is the Diplomatic role?

Provide aid and negotiation.

What is the difference between Financial and Economic actions?

What you can do TO a country vs What you can do in YOUR country

What are the 3 Levels of Warfare?

-Strategic. • -Operational. ⚫ -Tactical

What organization is primarily responsible for the coordination and overseeing national security in the United States?

-National Security Council (NSC)

The describes how the DoD contributes to the execution of the president's NSS (nation security strategy)

-National Defense Strategy

What are the two types of Warfare?

Conventional and Irregular

The _ was created in 1947

-National Security Council (NSC)

the __ __ __ is the name of the first 10 amendments to the constitution of the United States which guarantee the rights and freedoms of the people

Bill of Rights

__ __ __ __ is the chain of commands that runs from the president, through the SecDef, Down to the combatant commanders

Operational chain of command

what does DIMEFIL stand for?

Diplomatic, Information, Military, Economic, Financial, Intelligence, Law Enforcement

__ __ is the Air Forces core mission that projects military power rapidly, flexibly and with a lighter footprint than other options

-Global Strike

tries to complicate or negate adversary responses

ACE

What are 4 of the 8 JADO principles?

Mission command through mission type orders MTO when appropriate. • -Delegation of authority to lower levels and to other component and service Leaders as required. • -Information sharing. • -Integrated multi domain planning. • -Risk identification and mitigation. • -Synergistic effected. • -Flexibility and versatility. • -Concentration.

The joint planning process step that involves mission analysis, identifying the desired end state, and assessing the situation is __ __

-Mission Analysis

a __ __ __ may be established on a geographical area of functional basis when the mission has a limited objective and no requirement for overall centralized control of logistics

Joint Task Force

the purpose of _ is to ensure unity of effort under one Commander.

-Unity of Command

the __ is a military strategy used by the U.S. Department of defense to integrate resources from different defense domains to plan, analyze, and execute missions. JADO integrates platforms, Sensors, weapons and joint all-domain command and control (JADC2) systems. The goal is to provide a complete picture of the battlespace and enable prompt action.

JADO

what are 2 of the 4 functional combatant commands?

-Us cyber command. • -Us special operations command. -Us transportation command. -Us strategic command

what type of combatant commands are assigned a geographic area of responsibility where there missions are accomplished with assigned and or attached forces?

Geographic Combatant Commands

what CCMD is responsible for planning and conducting military operations across the full spectrum of operations in the indo pacific region?

U.S Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)

What Combatant Commands Headquarters is at MacDill AFB, FL?

US central command (USCENTCOM), US Special Forces command (SOCOM)

What types of Combatant Command conducts assigned mission independently?

-Functional commands

the a staff Structure also provides touchpoints to speed the flow of information improving ___ to enable more rapid and effective integration and minimize HHQ staff reaching into operational squadrons.

-communication

The ___ is where the air component fulfils operational and administrative responsibilities for assigned/attached forces all across the competition continuum

A-Staff

what is A4 in the A-staff organization?

Logistics

The A10 is what part of the A-staff organization?

Nuclear

the A-staff has (blank) as the Manpower and personnel part of the organization?

-A1

what is the geographic homeland boundaries of the U.S?

50 States, 4 territories and numerous island possessions.

(blank) is support provided in the response to requests for assistance for civil authorities for domestic emergencies law enforcement support and other domestic activates or from qualifying entities for special events

-Civil support or defense support of civil authorities

(Blank) is the safeguarding of us sovereignty domestic population and critical defense infrastructure against outside threats/aggression or other threats as directed by the President.

Homeland Defense

What are CS mission Stand for?

-Civil Support Mission

what does HLD missions stand for?

Homeland Defense