and the American Military

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War And the American Military
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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
• Themes
• Elements
• Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and
  High Yield Explosives (CBRNE)

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WAR

• Theres NO glamour!

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WAR

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

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DEFINITION

• 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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War is an instrument of national policy
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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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POLITICAL SIDE

• Four Possible Responses to War
• Realism war is about power and interest
• Secular ideology
• Territory
• Economic gain
• Fear
• Holy War God authorizes war
• Pacifism war is immoral
• Just War morally justifiable under certain
• conditions

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POLITICAL SIDE

• JWT Responses to other three responses to war
• Realism Considerations
• Holy War Considerations
• Pacifism Considerations
• JWT is NOT a compromise of faith

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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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ELEMENTS OF WAR

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

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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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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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MEANS USED

• Weapons of mass destruction
• Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, High
  Yield Explosives (CBRNE)
• Conventional
• Tactics
• Guerrilla
• Terrorism

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Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and
High Yield Explosives(CBRNE)
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Chemical Biological Weapons

• Poor mans nukes
• Relatively easy to manufacture difficult to
  trace.
• Serious civilian threat
• Not as serious a threat to well equipped military
  forces.
• Overlap with legitimate research/ production
  easy to hide -- but no need to hide because
  theyre easy to mass produce.

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Radiological Weapons

• A "dirty bomb" or radiological dispersal device
  (RDD) is a conventional explosive or bomb
  containing radioactive material. The conventional
  bomb is used as a means to spread radioactive
  contamination.

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Nuclear Weapons

• Nuclear weapons technology is World War II
  technology.
• Today its graduate physics and engineering
• Anyone can get info on how to build a weapon.

• Good newsCost to build is prohibitive -- 10
  Billion to build!

• Bad newsDont have to build Rogue countries
  or groups can simply buy or steal them.

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• "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped
  one bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and destroyed its
  usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power
  than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two
  thousand times the blast power of the British
  Grand Slam, which is the largest bomb ever yet
  used in the history of warfare".
• President Harry S. Truman,
• 6 August 1945

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High Yield Explosives

• Any conventional explosive that has the potential
  to cause mass destruction.
• Inexpensive and may be common items such as
  fertilizer or an airliner.
• Alfred E, Murrah building in OK City
• Kobar Towers in Saudi Arabia
• World Trade Centers and Pentagon
• MANPAD missiles against air traffic.
• Several cargo planes in Iraq have been shot
• Threats against civilian airliners in NY

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COUNTER-CBRNE

• Operational Spectrum
• Proliferation Prevention
• Counterforce/attack operations
• Active Defense
• Passive Defense
• Integration creates maximum effectivness
• Critical to mitigating the threat

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COUNTERFORCE

• The employment of strategic air and missile
  forces in an effort to destroy, or render
  impotent, selected military capabilities of an
  enemy force under any of the circumstances by
  which hostilities may be initiated. (JP 1-02)
• Enemy CBRNE capabilities
• Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage, and Assess
  (F2T2EA)
• USSTRATCOM as C-CBRNE executive agent

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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

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SUMMARY

• Definitions
• Themes
• Elements
• Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and
  High Yield Explosives (CBRNE)