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How Can the Mobility Air Forces Better Support Adaptive Basing? Summary Analysis, Findings, and Recommendations / DAVID T. ORLETSKY, JEFFREY S. BROWN, BRADLEY DEBLOIS, PATRICK MILLS, DANIEL M. NORTON, JULIA BRACKUP, CHRISTIAN CURRIDEN, ADAM R. GRISSOM, ROBERT A. GUFFEY.
Van Pelt Library UG634.49 .O75 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orletsky, David T., 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Air Force--Mobilization.
- United States.
- United States. Air Force--Planning.
- United States. Air Force--Operational readiness.
- Air bases, American.
- Air warfare.
- Airplanes, Military--United States.
- Airplanes, Military.
- Military planning--United States.
- Military planning.
- Combat sustainability (Military science).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 62 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2023
- Summary:
- The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing (AB) concepts to reduce the vulnerability of U.S. forces to growing air and missile threats and to preserve critical combat capabilities in highly contested environments. These concepts are likely to stress the U.S. Air Force's global mobility capabilities. AB concepts call for force packages to operate in mobile and responsive ways to provide protection and fight from positions of advantage. Although these concepts place additional and different demands on the U.S. Air Force's global mobility capabilities, their effect on the Mobility Air Forces (MAF) had not been fully analyzed. In this report, the authors assess the impact of AB concepts on the MAF and recommend how to enable the MAF to better support operations in contested environments. The analysis considers the impact of several AB concepts on the demand for tankers, airlift, and base enablers in the Pacific area of responsibility and examines the sufficiency of current MAF forces to support AB concepts. Potential enhancements are then considered. In general, the authors find that the current MAF (tankers, airlift, and base enablers) could support a few fighter wings (two or three) operating using an AB scheme of maneuver. Significant changes must be made to support larger force packages. Potential enhancements include culture; tactics, techniques, and procedures; equipment; and new technologies.
- Contents:
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: Analytic Approach and Selected Adaptive Basing Concepts
- Chapter Three: Tanker Support to Adaptive Basing: Current Capability and Potential Enhancements
- Chapter Four: Airlift Support to Adaptive Basing: Current Capability and Potential Enhancements
- Chapter Five: Base Enablers to Support Adaptive Basing: Current Capability and Potential Enhancements
- Chapter Six: Additional Issues Affecting the Mobility Air Forces
- Chapter Seven: Conclusions and Recommendations.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF document (viewed January 25, 2023)
- "RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE"
- "Prepared for the Department of the Air Force"
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-62)
- See also RAND/RR-A1125-2
- Description based on electronic resource
- ISBN:
- 1977410081
- 9781977410085
- OCLC:
- 1368207813
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