RAND Research Brief: A Global Infrastructure to Support Expeditionary Aerospace Forces

Abstract

The post-Cold War environment has required the Air Force to rethink its policies, postures, and strategies. One result of this has been the development of the Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) concept for projecting sustainable quick-strike force packages worldwide. The EAF will divide the Air Force into several Aerospace Expeditionary Forces (AEFs), each roughly equivalent in capability, among which deployment responsibilities are expected to be rotated on an equitable and fairly predictable basis. A good deal of attention has been given to determining AEF composition and scheduling AEF deployments. Less attention has been given to strategic decisions that affect combat support infrastructures for enabling rapid deployments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA378247

Entities

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Bare Bases
  • Cold War
  • Combat Support
  • Deployment
  • Employment
  • Force Protection
  • Infrastructure
  • Investments
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Munitions
  • Rapid Deployment
  • Resilience
  • Vehicles
  • Warfare
  • World Wide Web

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Economics
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Space