The teams taking the field will be light, lean and lethal aerospace expeditionary forces. Operationally linked, a variety of geographically separated units will be brought together as one to provide a rapid and responsive capability. But, before the game can commence, aerospace expeditionary forces will need to be in the locker room before kickoff. Rapid mobility will be the key to getting these teams and their supplies and equipment to the stadium. If a nation wants to exert an influence in tomorrow's unstable world, it must be able to reach out.
Today there is only one nation that has that kind of reach, and that's the United States.
That's 48 hours from alert to bombs on target. Working within such a strict timeline requires highly-synchronized coordination of all the mobility actions and it also requires substantial air mobility assets as well. But America doesn't have to wait for tomorrow to see the speed of global mobility or the highly synchronized coordination of its assets. The distance covered 8,000 miles and required 20 tankers and 2 million pounds of fuel off-loaded in three air refuelings. Now that's global air mobility, and nobody else can do it.