and the American Military

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War And Aerospace Power
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The REAL mission of the Air Force

• We are the BEST at it!

• We blow things up!

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YOUR PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

• Learn HOW to wage war
• In ALL of its forms
• Against ALL of our enemies
• Regardless of your job!

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Assumptions About War

• We will have wars in the future
• Worst possible TIME
• Worst possible PLACE
• Worst possible ENEMY

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Overview

• Definitions
• Basic Themes
• Elements
• Enduring Truths
• Essence of Aerospace Power
• Definition
• Key Attributes

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WAR

• Isnt Hollywood!
• Theres NO glamour!

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WAR

• A nasty, ugly, bloody expensive business!
• Takes its toll in blood treasure!

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WAR

• Definitions
• Basic Themes
• Elements
• Enduring Truths
• Essence of Aerospace Power
• Definition
• Key Attributes

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DEFINITION 1

• Clausewitz
• 1. War is an act of violence to compel our enemy
  to do our will
• 2. War is politics with the addition of other
  means
• To achieve political objectives

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DEFINITION 2

• Air Force Basic Doctrine (AFDD-1)
• WAR is a struggle between rival political groups
  or nation-states to attain competing political
  objectives.

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War is an instrument of national policy
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WAR

• Definitions
• Basic Themes
• Elements
• Enduring Truths
• Essence of Aerospace Power
• Definition
• Key Attributes

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WARBASIC THEMES
POLICY
VIOLENCE

• The POLITICAL side

• The MILITARY side

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POLITICAL SIDE

• War is the LAST RESORT of policy
• War is the FAILURE of policy

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POLITICAL SIDE

• Objective of war
• Overcome the enemys hostile will and ability
• Achieve a better state of peace

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• War is a complex and chaotic human endeavor

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MILITARY SIDE

• War is a human enterprise
• Fierce emotions involved
• 3 factors dominating war (Clausewitz)

FOG FRICTION CHANCE
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WAR

• Definitions
• Basic Themes
• Elements
• Enduring Truths
• Essence of Aerospace Power
• Definition
• Key Attributes

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ELEMENTS OF WAR

• MOTIVES
• OBJECTIVES
• PARTICIPANTS
• MEANS USED
• LEVEL OF VIOLENCE
• SCOPE OF WAR
• ASYMMETRY

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MOTIVES

• Secular ideology
• Ethnic/tribal hatred
• Religion
• Territory

• Economic gain
• Revenge
• Fear
• Mixture

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OBJECTIVES

• TOTAL
• Political overthrow/extermination
• LIMITED
• Concessions

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• War is a clash of opposing wills

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PARTICIPANTS

• State vs. State
• Groups within a state
• Civil War
• Non-State entities
• PLO, IRA, KLA

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MEANS USED

• Weapons of mass destruction
• Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC)
• Conventional
• Tactics
• Guerrilla
• Terrorism

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LEVELS of VIOLENCE

• TOTAL WAR
• Destroy the enemy
• LIMITED
• Restrain forces being used

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SCOPE OF WAR

• GLOBAL
• The Great War
• WWII
• REGIONAL
• Russia-Dagestan War
• India-Pakistan or China-Taiwan
• LOCAL
• Kosovo, Bosnia, Somalia,

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ASYMMETRY

• Adversaries NOT fighting the SAME war Vietnam
• OBJECTIVES (Limited vs Unlimited)
• MOTIVES ( Different from enemy motives)
• MEANS (Limited vs Unlimited)

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3 Enduring Truths of War

• War is
• an instrument of national policy
• a complex chaotic human endeavor
• a clash of opposing wills
• Unpredictable

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The Essence of Aerospace Power
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ESSENCE OF AEROSPACE POWER
The collection of unique military capabilities
that control and exploit the air and space medium
to gain a powerful advantage in time, mass,
position, and awareness in pursuit of national
security interests. - Gen Fogleman
Good Definition, but
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ESSENCE OF AEROSPACE POWER
DEFINITION

• Only air and space forces can concentrate great
  power quickly over any spot on the globe.

-Prof Drew
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Key Attributes

• Only Air and Space Forces
• Concentration of Great Power
• Quickly
• Any Spot on the Globe

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ESSENCE OF AEROSPACE POWER
Elevation
Only air and space forces

• can
  concentrate great power quickly over any spot on
  the globe.

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ADVANTAGES OF ELEVATION

• PERSPECTIVE
• Broader view
• SPEED
• Allows travel as mission sees fit
• RANGE
• No surface obstacles
• MANEUVERABILTY
• Allows movement as mission sees fit

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• To have command of the air is to have victory
• - Giulio Douhet

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ESSENCE OF AEROSPACE POWER
Only air and space forces can
quickly over any spot on the globe.
concentrate great power
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Types of Power

• Munitions
• nuclear, conventional,
• smart, dumb

• Humanitarian
• food, medicine, water...

• Presence
• Chief of Staff Air Force quote

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...having a force that is fully capable of
utilizing the unique aspects of air and space
power - range, speed, flexibility and precision
to their fullest capacity. Not where we live, but
where we are needed. Not when we can, but when we
must.
- Gen Ryan
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War, once declared, must be waged offensively,
aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off,
but smitten down.
- Admiral Alfred T. Mahan
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ESSENCE OF AEROSPACE POWER
Only air and space forces can concentrate great
power over any spot on the globe.
quickly
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SPEED

• Speed of movement in far greater magnitudes than
  surface forces
• Any place from CONUS is a few hours away
• B1-B around the world record
• Speed Time relationship

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• How true it is that in all military operations
  time is everything
• - Duke of Wellington Defeated Napoleon at
  Waterloo

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PROPOSITION FIVE

• Air Power produces physical psychological
  shock by dominating the 4th dimension -- time

• Physical Shock through fire power
• B-52 - can deliver 19 tons of explosives
• F-15E - 4 tons on a large house

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PROPOSITION FIVE

• Air Power produces physical psychological
  shock by dominating the 4th dimension -- time

• Psychological shock through speed
• Army advances - 3 miles per day
• Surprise, flexibility, confusion disorientation

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ESSENCE OF AEROSPACE POWER

• Only air and space forces can concentrate great
  power quickly over

any where on the globe
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Air Power has become dominant, both as a
deterrent to war - and in the eventuality of war
- as the devastating force to destroy an enemys
potential and fatally undermine his will to wage
war - Gen Omar Bradley WWII Army General
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Basically, Air Power delivers strategic
information some of it is negative, like bombs,
some of it is positive, like food
- Col John Warden Author, The
Air Campaign
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296, 319 tons of food
Berlin Airlift June 1948 Sep 1949
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2.3 mil tons of freight
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WORLD WAR II

• 4500 bombers, dropping 9000 tons of bombs, to
  destroy a target the size of a house with 99
  probability.

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LINEBACKER II

• 95 aircraft, dropping 190 tons of bombs to
  destroy the house

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DESERT STORM

• One aircraft, one bomb!

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SUMMARY

• Definitions
• Basic Themes
• Elements
• Enduring Truths
• Essence of Aerospace Power
• Definition
• Key attributes

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SUMMARY

• Essence of AeroSpace Power
• Only air and space forces can concentrate great
  power quickly over any spot on the globe
• Key Attributes
• Only Air and Space Forces
• Concentration of Great Power
• Quickly
• Any Spot on the Globe

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• The United States relies on airpower, and
  airpower has never been the decisive factor in
  the history of warfare.
• Saddam Hussein
• 30 Aug 1990

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• DOH!!
• Saddam Hussein
• 17 Jan 1991