Twenty-First-Century Air Warfare and the Invisible War: Strategic Agility

Abstract

Who will be our next enemy? Whom will we fight in the next 20 30 years, and how can we be ready? Perhaps even more importantly, how can we prepare the force to deter these fights? To meet its own strategy and the demands of an uncertain global environment, the Air Force must increase its strategic agility. Fundamentally, the service must remain prepared for today s fight yet also ready itself for future conflicts. The Air Force must synchronize these two time horizons and assure that its forces are capable of meeting a myriad of future threats. One step toward realizing greater strategic agility would involve establishing a Warfighter Integration and Innovation Branch (WI2B). However, to understand why this organizational change is necessary, we must first consider the current state of the Air Force.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA624277

Entities

People

  • Michael W. Benitez

Organizations

  • Air and Space Power Journal

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Training
  • Aircrafts
  • Command And Control
  • Cross Domain
  • Instructors
  • Military Force Levels
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Students
  • Training
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Central Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Strategic Security Studies