Preparing for "Post-ISIL" Access Challenges: Robust Basing to Support Operations Against Nonstate Adversaries

Abstract

The research presented here focuses on addressing the basing challenge of recurrent interruptions in the pressure (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance [ISR] and strike operations) that can be exerted against nonstate adversaries. Our analysis is presented in the context of a postIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Iraq, a case in which the underlying conditions are shifting. In the Middle East and Africa, recurrent access crises - demands to vacate bases, restrictions on type and nature of operations, and loss of overflight rights - are rooted in the geographic, economic, social, and political characteristics of the regions. The result has often been ephemeral basing access in these regions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1086291

Entities

People

  • Adam R. Grissom
  • Christopher A. Mouton

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • California
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Intellectual Property
  • Middle East
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Public Policy
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Surveillance
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • Warfare

Readers

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  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.