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Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces: New Agile Combat Support Postures
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Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces: New Agile Combat Support Postures Paperback - 2000

by Lionel A. Galway; Robert S. Tripp; Timothy L. Ramey

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With the end of the Cold War, the United States has entered an entirely new security environment that has required the U.S. Air Force to stage a large number of deployments, carried out by a substantially smaller force than existed in the 1980s. To meet these challenges and to address resulting personnel turbulence, the Air Force has formulated the expeditionary Aerospace Force concept. Prototype analyses in this report suggest that with today's support processes, ploicies, and technologies, deploying even a modest fighter-based combat force to a bare base will require several days of development before the Forward Operating Location can sustain a high flying tempo.

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This report addresses support of emerging Air Force employment strategies associated with Expeditionary Aerospace Forces (EAFs). EAF concepts turn on the premise that rapidly tailorable, quickly deployable, immediately employable, and highly effective air and space force packages can serve as a credible substitute for permanent forward presence. This research shows that to implement the EAF concept the Air Force will need to develop a comprehensive system of forward support infrastructure.

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  • Title Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces: New Agile Combat Support Postures
  • Author Lionel A. Galway; Robert S. Tripp; Timothy L. Ramey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 39
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher RAND Corporation
  • Publication date 2000-05
  • ISBN 9780833028013 / 0833028014
  • Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6.38 x 0.17 in (22.76 x 16.21 x 0.43 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99089551
  • Dewey Decimal Code 358.809