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

Abstract

The U.S. National Defense Strategy highlighted important new strategic and operational challenges and called on the U.S. Department of Defense to innovate in response to those challenges. The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing (AB) concepts as part of this innovation to reduce the vulnerability of combat air forces (CAF) and to preserve critical combat capabilities in highly contested environments.1 These AB concepts will stress the Mobility Air Forces (MAF). Given the uncertainty of the emerging operational environment, enhancing MAF adaptability will create a significant national strategic advantage for the United States.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 25, 2023
Accession Number
AD1191610

Entities

People

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

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Combat Readiness
  • Command And Control
  • Contested Environments
  • Delphi Method
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Employment
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Land Transportation
  • Mobility
  • National Security
  • Space Force
  • Training
  • United States
  • Vulnerability
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.