The Air Power Expeditionary Force: A Strategy for an Uncertain Future

Abstract

Contrary to initial expectations, the end of the Cold War has not resulted in a spontaneous outbreak of international peace and stability. While the nuclear threat has diminished, previously suppressed ethnic and nationalistic rivalries have boiled over and become additive to existing trouble spots in Korea and Southwest Asia. In spite of these challenges, defense spending and military forward presence have declined as the lack of a peer competitor has our deprived national security strategy of a definable threat.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA395180

Entities

People

  • M. A. Nowak

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Combat Operations
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Deployment
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Logistics
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Economics
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.