| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 46 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
PREFACE -- PROJECT AIR FORCE -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION -- GENERAL ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK -- SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENTS: FOLs AND FSLs -- EXPEDITIONARY DEPLOYMENT PERFORMANCE: PROTOTYPE ANALYSIS -- ANALYZING OPTIONS FOR EXPEDITIONARY ACS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ACRONYMS -- THE NEW SECURITY ENVIRONMENT AND THE USAF -- THE EXPEDITIONARY AEROSPACE FORCE -- EXPEDITIONARY COMBAT SUPPORT -- THEATER INFRASTRUCTURE PREPARATION -- GENERAL ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK -- DETAILED DESCRIPTION -- MODELS AND CURRENT STATUS -- DATA SOURCES -- INTEGRATING MODELS |
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SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENTS: FOLs AND FSLs -- CATEGORIES OF FOL -- Category 3 -- Category 2 -- Category 1 -- SUPPLYING THE DIFFERENCE: FSLs AND CONUS -- EXPEDITIONARY DEPLOYMENT PERFORMANCE: PROTOTYPE ANALYSIS -- EAF SCENARIOS -- PERFORMANCE METRICS -- SCENARIO DEPLOYMENT PERFORMANCE -- Timelines to Deploy to Categories of FOL -- Deployment Footprint -- Peacetime Cost Estimates -- EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES ON DEPLOYMENT PERFORMANCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- ANALYZING OPTIONS FOR EXPEDITIONARY ACS -- MODEL OUTPUT FOR PROTOTYPE CASES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
With the end of the Cold War, the United States has entered an entirely new security environment that has required the U.S. Air Force to stage a large number of deployments, carried out by a substantially smaller force than existed in the 1980s. To meet these challenges and to address resulting personnel turbulence, the Air Force has formulated the expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) concept (fast deployments to a breaking crisis, possibly to "bare bases" with minimal infrastructure in place). Prototype analyses in this report suggest that with today's support processes, policies, and technologies, deploying even a modest fighter-based combat force to a bare base will require several days of development before the Forward Operating Location (FOL) can sustain a high flying tempo. Achieving the EAF goals will require strategic preparation of theater infrastructure--development of a global system of support locations (Forward Support Locations [FSLs] and in CONUS) that provide materiel, maintenance, and transportation to deployed units at FOLs. Determining how support activities are distributed between CONUS, FSLs, and FOLs is the essence of strategic support decisions. The authors assert that these decisions require analyses carried out with a strategic perspective, one that views the entire support structure, both inside and outside CONUS, as a system of global support |
| Notes |
"MR-1075-AF." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-46) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Air Force -- Commissariat
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Air Force fast |
| Subject |
Space warfare.
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Armed Forces -- Commissariat
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Space warfare
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Galway, Lionel A., 1950-
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| LC no. |
99089551 |
| ISBN |
0833043617 |
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9780833043610 |
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9780833028013 |
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0833028014 |
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