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The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the United States Armed Forces which was created under the National Security Act of 1947 signed President Harry S Truman. The Air Force ended a 40-year association with the U.S. Army to become a separate service two years after the ...
A commander’s pace, pattern, or systematic process used to plan and execute an engagement, battle, or campaign.
Industry:Military
The environment, factors, and conditions which must be understood to successfully apply combat power, protect the force, or complete the mission. This includes the air, land, sea, space, and the included enemy and friendly forces, facilities, weather, terrain, the electromagnetic spectrum, and information environment within the operational areas and areas of interest.
The commander's conceptual view of the area and factors which he must understand to successfully apply combat power, protect the force, and complete the mission. It encompasses all applicable aspects of air, sea, space, and land operations that the commander must consider in planning and executing military operations. The battlespace dimensions can change over time as the mission expands or contracts, according to operational objectives and force composition. Battlespace provides the commander a mental forum for analyzing and selecting courses of action for employing military forces in relationship to time, tempo, and depth.
Industry:Military
An effect on the behavior of individuals, groups, systems, organizations, and governments.
Industry:Military
The employment of techniques to identify US, allied, and coalition forces for the purposes of providing commanders enhanced situational awareness and reducing fratricide.
Industry:Military
The joint force commander’s broad qualitative and analytical determination of the overall campaign progress, effectiveness of operations and recommendations for future action.
Industry:Military
One or more of a series of successive indirect effects that propagate through a system or systems. Typically, cascading effects flow throughout the levels of conflict and are the results of interdependencies and links among multiple connected systems.
Industry:Military
An explanation of why an action or effect will cause or contribute to a given effect.
Industry:Military
In joint air operations, placing within one commander the responsibility and authority for planning, directing, and coordinating a military operation or group/category of operations. The planning, direction, prioritization, allocation, synchronization, integration, and deconfliction of air and space capabilities to achieve the objectives of the joint force commander.
Industry:Military
The civil environment includes factors related to a people, their government, politics, culture, and economy. The organization of the civil environment includes the major subcategories of political policies, culture, and economy.
Industry:Military
A voluntary contractual program where civil carriers agree to augment military airlift during a crisis in exchange for peacetime defense business. During peacetime, regional contingencies, and major exercises, CRAF carriers are contracted to fly scheduled passenger, patient/casualty, and cargo channel missions, special assignment airlift missions (SAAMs) and charter missions. This support gives AMC the capacity to meet both routine scheduled and surge commitments flexibly and simultaneously.
Industry:Military
