Courses of action for enhancing U.S. Air Force "irregular warfare" capabilities
Subtitle: a functional solutions analysis
By: Richard Mesic ... [et al.].
Contributors: Mesic, Richard, 1943-
Publisher: RAND
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780833048745
Subjects: United States. -- Air Force -- Operational readiness; Asymmetric warfare -- United States; Unified operations (Military science) -- United States
Description: "The U.S. Air Force leadership plans in the near term to identify and implement a range of initiatives for enhancing the service's contributions to irregular warfare (IW) operations and to meet DoD guidance that directs its components to "recognize that IW is as strategically important as traditional warfare." This monograph is the result of a "quick-turn" study to provide the leadership with a menu of actions it could consider both in the very near term and over an extended period to strengthen and expand the Air Force's capabilities to take part in joint and interagency efforts in irregular warfare. Rather than developing detailed endpoints for Air Force capabilities or structure in the future--e.g., what the USAF could look like in, say, 2015--the authors propose solution vectors that could enable the Air Force to move out quickly while continuing to consider responses to emerging demands in a dynamic IW environment."--Rand web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.