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Air Force strategic planning : past, present, and future / Raphael S. Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Raphael S., author.
- Series:
- Research report (Rand Corporation)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strategic planning--United States.
- Strategic planning.
- Adaptive planning (Military science)--United States.
- Adaptive planning (Military science).
- Military doctrine--United States.
- Military doctrine.
- National security--United States--Forecasting.
- National security.
- Military policy.
- National security--Forecasting.
- United States--Military policy--21st century.
- United States.
- United States. Air Force--Operational readiness--Planning.
- United States. Air Force--Organization--Planning.
- United States. Air Force.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 86 pages) : color illustration.
- Other Title:
- Air Force Strategic Planning
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, 2017.
- Summary:
- "This report examines the history of strategic planning efforts in the U.S. Air Force and asks three basic questions. First, what does Air Force strategic planning actually accomplish? Second, what should it accomplish? Third, how can the process be modified to best fit that goal? The report finds that many of the most innovative Air Force strategy documents were produced outside the bureaucratic structure. Still, the Air Force has successfully used strategic planning to accomplish four basic tasks: allocate resources; structure the force; define and shape the service's mission and identity; and, perhaps most importantly, create a dialogue about the direction of the service. For the most part, successful strategic plans have achieved these results by applying five key lessons: understanding the policy environment; encouraging ideas from the bottom; starting the strategy from the top; keeping the message succinct, substantive, and sharp; and focusing on process as much as product"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Strategic Planning and Its Discontents
- Defining Strategy and Measuring Its Effect
- Air Force Strategy from Its Formation Through the Cold War
- Air Force Strategy from 1990 to the Present
- Lessons for Air Force Strategic Planning
- Postscript: The Future of Air Force Strategy
- Appendix. Effect of Specific Air Force Strategic Documents.
- Notes:
- "February 28, 2017"--Table of contents page
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