Posture triangle : a new framework for U.S. Air Force global presence / / Stacie L. Pettyjohn, Alan J. Vick |
Autore | Pettyjohn Stacie L |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, California : , : Rand Corporation, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (127 p.) |
Disciplina | 358.4 |
Altri autori (Persone) | VickAlan |
Collana | Research report |
Soggetto topico | Air bases, American |
ISBN | 0-8330-8170-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Background; The Policy Problem; Purpose of This Document; Organization; 2. Why Does the USAF Need a Global Posture?; The Reach and Limits of U.S. Territory; The Posture Triangle; Strategic Anchors; Forward Operating Locations; Support Links; An Integrated Framework for Posture Planning; 3. Where Does the USAF Need Basing and Access?; Strategic Anchors; Strategic Anchors: Enduring Partners; Strategic Anchors-Mutual Defense Partners; Forward Operating Locations
Support Links (En Route Airfields)4. What Types of Security Partnerships Minimize Peacetime Access Risk?; Political Challenges to Peacetime Access; Peacetime Access Risk; 5. How Much Forward Presence Does the USAF Require?; Tremendous Variation in the USAF''s Overseas Presence; Military Requirements and Forward Presence; The Posture Triangle and Peacetime Presence Needs; 6. Findings and Recommendations; Why Does the USAF Need a Global Posture?; Where Does the USAF Need Basing and Access?; What Types of Security Partnerships Minimize Peacetime Access Risk? How Much Forward Presence Does the United States Require?Recommendations; Use an Integrated Framework to Explain Global Posture; Maintain Strategic Anchor Locations in Key Regions and with Enduring Partners; Expand Access to Potential Forward Operating Locations in Key Regions; Use Basing Clusters to Minimize Access Risk; Expand USAF Capability to Support Rotational Forces; Global Posture for a Global Power; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910220092103321 |
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U.S. global defense posture, 1783-2011 / / Stacie L. Pettyjohn |
Autore | Pettyjohn Stacie L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, CA : , : RAND Corporation, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 124 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
Disciplina | 355/.033073 |
Collana | Gale eBooks |
Soggetto topico | Military bases, American - Planning |
ISBN |
0-8330-7908-5
0-8330-7906-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Framework for U.S. posture -- Extent of the U.S. overseas military presence -- Operational orientation of American forces -- Continental defense, 1783-1815 -- Continental defense and commercialism, 1815-1898 -- Transition period, 1898-1905 -- Oceanic posture -- Hemispheric defense (hemispheric anti-access/area denial) -- Perimeter defense in-depth, 1943-1949 -- Consolidated defense-in-depth -- Transitioning from perimeter defense-in-depth to consolidated defense-in-depth -- Expeditionary defense-in-depth -- Comparing the GDPR to perimeter defense-in-depth -- Findings and recommendations -- Recommendations -- Concluding thoughts. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910220078703321 |
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Santa Monica, CA : , : RAND Corporation, , 2012 | ||
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