Developing US European Command's Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Strategy for Fiscal Years 2010 through 2015

Abstract

As long as the United States continues to focus on Afghanistan and Iraq, the nation's war-fighting resources will remain dedicated to prevailing in those wars. This article examines how America's emphasis on United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) adversely affects intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations of other combatant commands (COCOM); it does so by analyzing United States European Command's (USEUCOM) ability to execute an effective ISR strategy in pursuit of its intelligence requirements. The article begins with a brief discussion of the impact of ISR operations in USEUCOM during the 1990s and then addresses national and Air Force-specific strategies and the ways they affect that command. Furthermore, it offers some tangible solutions designed to mitigate such problems as gaps in ISR collection, primarily caused by underresourcing, that, if adopted, would allow USEUCOM to better perform its critical ISR mission.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA533659

Entities

People

  • Kevin M. Coyne

Organizations

  • Air and Space Power Journal

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Department Of Defense
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • Military Force Levels
  • National Security
  • Reconnaissance
  • Surveillance
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • United States European Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.