How Can the Mobility Air Forces Better Support Adaptive Basing? Summary Analysis, Findings, and Recommendations

Abstract

The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing (AB) concepts to reduce the vulnerability of U.S. forces to growing air and missile threats and to preserve critical combat capabilities in highly contested environments. These concepts are likely to stress the U.S. Air Force's global mobility capabilities. AB concepts call for force packages to operate in mobile and responsive ways to provide protection and fight from positions of advantage. Although these concepts place additional and different demands on the U.S. Air Force's global mobility capabilities, their effect on the Mobility Air Forces (MAF) had not been fully analyzed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 25, 2023
Accession Number
AD1191609

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  • Adam R. Grissom
  • Bradley Deblois
  • Christian Curriden
  • Daniel M. Norton
  • David T. Orletsky
  • Jeffrey S. Brown
  • Julia Brackup
  • Patrick Mills
  • Robert A. Guffey

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  • RAND Corporation

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  • Air Platforms
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