The Airlift System. A Primer
Abstract
The purpose of this primer has not been to predetermine the conclusions of such studies of airlift organization or other issues. Rather, it has sought to lay out a theoretical backdrop for such studies and for any proposal to change components of the national military airlift system. Seventy years of experience and the assiduous thought of dedicated people created the interconnected and synergistic body of organizations, equipment, policy, and doctrines that comprise the current airlift system a system unique in its ability to sustain national strategy by moving military forces and materiel over global and regional distances by air. Differences between past and future national security environments may suggest small changes to the airlift system's components but thus far anyway not to its tenets or to the relationships between those components. Airlift policies that ignore or violate the "grand logic" of the national military airlift system thus jeopardize its ultimate capacity and utility.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA392509
Entities
People
- Robert C. Owen
Organizations
- Air University