Air and Space Power
Review
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Overview
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Air and Space Power
Core Competencies
Functions
Doctrine
Tenets of Air and Space Power
Future
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Air and Space Trivia
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Three components of air and
space power?
Integrated application, Air and
Space systems, project global
military power
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Fundamental truths that apply to
the air and space environment?
Tenets
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Examples of which function?
Counterair
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Developing Airmen is an example
of what?
An Air Force Core Competency
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The Only Five Star General The Air
Force Has Had?
HENRY “HAP” ARNOLD
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Technology influences what
important concept of air and
space Power?
Doctrine
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Who Launched B-25s off an Aircraft
Carrier During WWII Against the
Japanese?
JIMMY DOOLITTLE
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Lesson learned by the Army Air
Corps in North Africa during WW II?
Centralized Control and Decentralized
Execution
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Sound barrier broken by Chuck
Yeager in which plane?
Bell XS-1 – “Glamorous Glennis”
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Which Act Made The Air Force a
Separate Service?
NATIONAL SECURITY ACT OF 1947
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ACTS was first established at
which AF base?
Langley AFB VA
(later moved to
Maxwell AFB AL)
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Air Operation in Vietnam With Clear
Objectives, the Most Concentrated of the
War, and Brought the N. Vietnamese Back
to the Peace Talks?
LINEBACKER II
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Match The Aircraft With Its
Nickname
B-2 - SPIRIT
F-117 - NIGHTHAWK
F-106 - DELTA DART
C-130 - HERCULES
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Competencies
Core competencies represent the
combination of professional knowledge,
airpower expertise, and technological
know-how that the Air Force brings to any
activity across the range of military
operations (AFDD 1, p 27)
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Competencies
Developing Airmen
Technology-to-warfighting
Integrating Operations
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Functions
Functions are broad, fundamental and
continuing activities of Aerospace Power - not
necessarily unique to the Air Force
(AFDD 1, p 45)
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Functions
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Counterair
Countersea
Strategic attack
Air Refueling
Intelligence
Surveillance
Special Operations
Nav & Positioning
Command and Control
Counterspace
Counterland
Airlift
Spacelift
Counterinformation
Reconnaissance
Combat Search & Res
Weather Service
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Doctrine
Air and space doctrine is a statement of
officially sanctioned beliefs and warfighting
principles that describe and guide the proper
use of Air and Space forces in military
operations
(AFDD 1, p 1)
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Current Doctrine
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Our current doctrine (belief in the best way to
employ aerospace power) is to possess the
capability (deterrence) to strategically strike
the enemy’s center’s of gravity with precision
and impact, at any time, anywhere in the
world, thus limiting further escalation of the
conflict.
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Video
Tenets Of Air and Space Power
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Summary
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Air and Space Power
Core Competencies
Functions
Doctrine
Tenets of Air and Space Power
Future
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Future
What Capabilities Will The Air Force
Have In 2025?
Stealth Bases
Separate Space Force
Bases on the Moon
Directed Energy Weapons
Human-Machine Interaction
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Will we still be the Air
Force?
or will we be known as the
The United States
Space and Air Force
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