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Book/Printed Material How can the Mobility Air Forces better support adaptive basing? : Appendixes A-C, supporting analyses of adaptive basing, soft power, and historical case studies

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  • How can the Mobility Air Forces better support adaptive basing? : Appendixes A-C, supporting analyses of adaptive basing, soft power, and historical case studies

Summary

  • The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing (AB) concepts to reduce the vulnerability of U.S. forces to growing air and missile threats and to preserve critical combat capabilities in highly contested environments. These concepts are likely to stress the U.S. Air Force's global mobility capabilities. AB concepts call for force packages to operate in mobile and responsive ways to preserve critical combat capabilities and fight from positions of advantage. Although these concepts place additional and different demands on the U.S. Air Force's global mobility capabilities, their effect on the Mobility Air Forces had not been fully analyzed. These appendixes provide in-depth discussion of the concepts, a detailed examination of the different types of power (hard, soft, and sharp) an adversary could exert on potential allies to limit U.S. base access, and historical case studies from World War II.

Names

  • Orletsky, David T., 1963- author
  • Brackup, Julia, author
  • Curriden, Christian, author
  • Grissom, Adam, author
  • Guffey, Robert A., author
  • Mills, Patrick, 1975- author
  • United States. Department of the Air Force
  • Project AIR FORCE (U.S.). Strategy and Doctrine Program
  • Rand Corporation

Created / Published

  • Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2023]

Contents

  • Appendix A: What Is Adaptive Basing? -- Appendix B: Political Challenges to Adaptive Basing and Military Access -- Appendix C: Historical Case Studies.

Headings

  • -  United States.--Air Force--Mobilization
  • -  United States.--Air Force--Operational readiness
  • -  United States.--Air Force--Planning
  • -  World War--(1939-1945)
  • -  Air bases, American
  • -  Air bases--China--Chengtu--History
  • -  Air warfare
  • -  Combat sustainability (Military science)
  • -  Military planning--United States
  • -  World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American
  • -  World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area
  • -  World War, 1939-1945--China
  • -  World War, 1939-1945--Japan

Notes

  • -  "Prepared for the Department of the Air Force"
  • -  "RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE"
  • -  Minimal Level Cataloging Plus.
  • -  Title from PDF document (viewed January 25, 2023)
  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-90).
  • -  Description based on electronic resource
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

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  • 1 electronic resource (viii, 90 pages )

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  • MLCM 2024/41241 (U)

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024738926

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Orletsky, David T., Author, Julia Brackup, Christian Curriden, Adam Grissom, Robert A Guffey, Patrick Mills, United States Department Of The Air Force, U.S.. Strategy And Doctrine Program Project Air Force, and Rand Corporation. How can the Mobility Air Forces better support adaptive basing?: Appendixes A-C, supporting analyses of adaptive basing, soft power, and historical case studies. [Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2023] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024738926/.

APA citation style:

Orletsky, D. T., Brackup, J., Curriden, C., Grissom, A., Guffey, R. A., Mills, P. [...] Rand Corporation. (2023) How can the Mobility Air Forces better support adaptive basing?: Appendixes A-C, supporting analyses of adaptive basing, soft power, and historical case studies. [Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024738926/.

MLA citation style:

Orletsky, David T., Author, et al. How can the Mobility Air Forces better support adaptive basing?: Appendixes A-C, supporting analyses of adaptive basing, soft power, and historical case studies. [Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2023] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024738926/>.