Aerospace Power

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• Aerospace Power
• Review

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Overview

• Aerospace Power
• Core Competencies
• Functions
• Doctrine
• Tenets of Aerospace Power
• Future

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Aerospace Trivia

• ARE YOU READY
• TO PLAY?

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Three components of aerospace power?

• Integrated application, Air and Space systems,
  project global military power

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Fundamental truths that apply to the aerospace
environment?

• Tenets

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Examples of which function?

• Counterair

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Rapid Global Mobility is an example of what?

• An Air Force Core Compentency

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The Only Five Star General The Air Force Has Had?

• HENRY HAP ARNOLD

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Technology influences what important concept of
Aerospace Power?

• Doctrine

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Who Launched B-25s off an Aircraft Carrier During
WWII Against the Japanese?

• JIMMY DOOLITTLE

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Lesson learned by the Army Air Corps in North
Africa during WW II?

• Centralized Control and Decentralized Execution

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Sound barrier broken by Chuck Yeager in which
plane?

• Bell XS-1 Glamorous Glennis

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Which Act Made The Air Force a Separate Service?

• NATIONAL SECURITY ACT OF 1947

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ACTS was first established at which AF base?

• Langley AFB, VA (later moved to Maxwell AFB, AL)

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Air Operation in Vietnam With Clear Objectives,
the Most Concentrated of the War, and Brought the
N. Vietnamese Back to the Peace Talks?

• LINEBACKER II

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Match The Aircraft With Its Nickname

• B-2 - SPIRIT
• F-117 - NIGHTHAWK
• F-106 - DELTA DART
• C-130 - HERCULES

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Competencies

• Core competencies represent the combination of
  professional knowledge, airpower expertise, and
  technological know-how that the Air Force brings
  to any activity across the range of military
  operations (AFDD-1, p 27)

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Competencies

• Aerospace Superiority
• Global Attack
• Rapid Global Mobility
• Precision Engagement
• Information Superiority
• Agile Combat Support

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Functions

• Functions are broad, fundamental and continuing
  activities of Aerospace Power - not necessarily
  unique to the Air Force
• (AFDD-1, p 45)

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Functions

• Counterair Counterspace
• Countersea Counterland
• Strategic attack Airlift
• Air Refueling Spacelift
• Intelligence Counterinformation
• Surveillance Reconnaissance
• Special Operations Combat Search Res
• Nav Positioning Weather Service
• Command and Control

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Doctrine

• Aerospace doctrine is a statement of officially
  sanctioned beliefs and warfighting principles
  that describe and guide the proper use of Air and
  Space forces in military operations
• (AFDD-1, p 1)

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Current Doctrine

• Our current doctrine (belief in the best way to
  employ aerospace power) is to possess the
  capability (deterrence) to strategically strike
  the enemys centers of gravity with precision
  and impact, at any time, anywhere in the world,
  thus limiting further escalation of the conflict.

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Video

• Tenets Of Aerospace Power

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Summary

• Aerospace Power
• Core Competencies
• Functions
• Doctrine
• Tenets of Aerospace Power
• Future

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Future

• What Capabilities Will The Air Force Have In
  2025?
• Stealth Bases
• Separate Space Force
• Bases on the Moon
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Human-Machine Interaction

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Will we still be the Air Force?or will we be
known as the

• The United States Space and Air Force