The Air Force Operations & Planning SMARTbook

The Air Force Operations & Planning SMARTbook

Leader's Guide to Planning & Conducting Airpower Operations The role of the Air Force is to defend the US and protect its interests through airpower, guided by the principles of joint operations and the tenets of airpower. Airpower is the ability to project military power or influence through the control and exploitation of air, space, and cyberspace to achieve strategic, operational, or tactical objectives. Airpower exploits the third dimension of the operational environment, the electromagnetic spectrum, and time to leverage speed, range, flexibility, precision tempo, and lethality to create effects from and within the air, space, and cyberspace domains. From this multi-dimensional perspective, Airmen can apply military power against an enemy's entire array of diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of power, at long ranges and on short notice. Airpower can be applied across the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war simultaneously. Airpower can compress time, controlling the tempo of operations. Historically, airpower has been associated with its more familiar and visible aspects, such as air-to-air combat, strategic bombing, and long-range heavy airlift. However, airpower has many less visible but equally important missions across the range of military operations: providing close air support and tactical mobility to our ground forces; positioning and resupplying remote forces; obtaining and providing detailed and timely intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; providing humanitarian relief; projecting world-wide command and control; and training of coalition partners in the use of airpower, just to name a few. Topics include fundamentals, principles and tenets of airpower; operations (AF missions, roles & functions); command and control (AOC, AFFOR & JFACC); planning for operations (AFOPE, JOPPA, joint air tasking cycle, OODA); targeting and assessment; and agile combat support (ACS)!
Country USA
Manufacturer The Lightning Press
Binding Plastic Comb
EANs 9781935886129
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The Lightning Press
Binding	Plastic Comb
EANs	9781935886129
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Air Force Operations & Planning SMARTbook

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