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Preparing the U.S. Air Force for military operations other than war / Alan Vick ... [et al.].

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Preparing the U.S. Air Force for military operations other than war / Alan Vick ... [et al.].
Publication
Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 1997.

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  • Vick, Alan
  • United States. Air Force
  • Rand Corporation.
  • Project AIR FORCE (U.S.)
Description
xxii, 205 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
Among the current military operations other than war (MOOTW), ongoing peace operations in Iraq and Bosnia, in particular, are producing an operations tempo unprecedented in peacetime. This optempo is stressing people and equipment, making it difficult for the United States Air Force (USAF) to prepare fully for potential combat operations in major regional conflicts. The objectives of this report are to help the USAF better understand the effects of current MOOTW on training and readiness, to explore some options to reduce those effects, and to propose new concepts of operations to enhance USAF capabilities to accomplish future MOOTW tasks. The report first looks at the types of MOOTW the Air Force and its predecessors have participated in since 1916 (including a database of 869 missions), and the changes in those types since the end of the Cold War. It then analyzes how MOOTW optempo is affecting force training, readiness, and morale, and explores several options for addressing these problems, including a Rcop-on-the-beatS operational concept to reduce the size of deployed forces. Next, it discusses the reasons MOOTW have taken on greater importance in the post-Cold War environment, and identifies current and future MOOTW tasks that the USAF could be assigned and presents some new concepts of operation to accomplish these tasks.
Subject
  • United States. Air Force > Operational readiness
  • United States. Air Force > Operations other than war
Note
  • "Prepared for the United States Air Force by RAND's Project AIR FORCE, MR-842-AF."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-205).
ISBN
0833024922
LCCN
^^^97003058^//r97
OCLC
36458023
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Harvard Library