Air Force Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Officer and Civilian Career Force Management for the 21st Century
Abstract
The renowned ancient Chinese strategist, Sun Tzu exposed, "Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge." In our modern military, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) professionals provide commanders with this critical foreknowledge. In today's fight, commanders demand that our ISR professionals locate elusive targets to enable precision strikes, determine the enemy?s covert intent to employ preemptive countermeasures, ascertain network vulnerabilities to develop effective tactical options, as well as understand foreign actors, language and cultural nuances to determine intent and maintain true situational awareness. Furthermore, as outlined in the 2008 AF ISR Strategy. Our ISR professionals will exploit air, space, and cyberspace to learn how enemies operate (i.e., their networks, tactics, training and logistics), identify options to deter them and, if necessary, negate their means for making war. Finally, AF ISR professionals must be agile and prepared to operate at multiple levels in any one of the extremely complex and unique six geographic combatant commands and/or three functional unified commands.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 12, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA540007
Entities
People
- Theresa L. Sanchez
Organizations
- Air War College