Strategic Airlift is Air Power
Abstract
Strategic airlift is a key component of air power in that it enables the Department of Defense to rapidly deploy and employ combat power in support of national objectives. Our experience in the Gulf War, where in a seven-month period, we airlifted over a half-million short tons of cargo and almost a half- million passengers into the theater of operations, showed clearly that strategic airlift is a system. It is a system so capable that it enabled the United States and its allies to deliver to the Gulf ten times the daily ton-miles as the 1947- 48 Berlin Airlift and four times that of the 1973 airlift to Israel. However, the Gulf War airlift was far from flawless. It generated some unique and challenging situations that highlighted shortcomings in what is first and foremost a system
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA283138
Entities
People
- Mary T. Bonnet
Organizations
- Air War College