Air Force Office of Special Investigations Support to Distributed Operations
Abstract
Due to the advancement and proliferation of Anti-Access/Area Denial employment, specifically long-range precision fires, the Air Force has recognized that its current sanctuary-based warfighting structure is not survivable. Namely, a reliance on main operating bases within a potential hostile weapons engagement zone will be extremely vulnerable to long range precision fires, and potentially unable to generate combat airpower during crisis or conflict. Part of the USAF solution is the Agile Combat Employment concept. ACE is an operational scheme of maneuver that aims to generate combat airpower away from the main operating bases. The Office of Special Investigations is currently set up for providing support to force protection along with counter-threat operations at MOBs in hostile and permissive environments. To provide effective CI support to future ACE combat operations, OSI will have to take an approach that spans across the competition continuum by building the threat picture and relationships in the competition phase and by executing CI operations rapidly in crisis and conflict scenarios.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 20, 2021
- Accession Number
- AD1178331
Entities
People
- Matthew Treadwell
Organizations
- Marine Corps University