America's Air Force : a call to the future.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Air Force, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Air Force--Operational readiness.

United States.

United States. Air Force--Planning.

United States. Air Force.

Military planning--United States.

Military planning.

Armed Forces--Operational readiness.

Armed Forces--Planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

Call to the future

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : [United States Air Force], 2014.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Released by the Air Force leadership on July 30, 2014, this strategy document seeks to outline a way forward for the service during an era of increasingly expensive armaments and personnel. It suggests the Air Force must move away from big-ticket weapons systems to less-expensive, more agile, and more quickly deployed systems. Failure to do so will mean the service grows increasingly burdened over time by rapidly rising personnel costs and ballooning costs of high-dollar ever-more-complex weapons systems. Media analysts suggest this document represents an expanding view across the military services, and Pentagon, that costs will need to be contained because the past and present way of doing business will no longer be affordable.

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction

Strategic context, the emerging global environment

The challenge

The Air Force we need, agile and inclusive

Strategic vectors for the future

A call to the future ... and a call to action.

Notes:

"July 2014."

Online resource; title from PDF cover page (Airman, viewed August 12, 2014).

OCLC:

886547919