Courses of action for enhancing U.S. Air Force "irregular warfare" capabilities : a functional solutions analysis /

Courses of action for enhancing U.S. Air Force "irregular warfare" capabilities : a functional solutions analysis /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Santa Monica, CA : RAND, c2010.
Description:	xxvi, 90 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Rand Corporation monograph series ; MG-913-AF Rand Corporation monograph series MG-913-AF.
Subject:	United States. -- Air Force -- Operational readiness. United States. -- Air Force. Asymmetric warfare -- United States. Unified operations (Military science) Irregular warfare. Armed Forces -- Operational readiness. Unified operations (Military science) United States.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8054421

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Other authors / contributors:	Mesic, Richard, 1943- United States. Air Force. Project Air Force (U.S.) Rand Corporation.
ISBN:	9780833048745 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0833048740 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	"Rand Project Air Force." "MG-913-AF"--P. [4] of cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-90). Also available via the Internet. Sponsored by the United States Air Force FA7014-06-C-0001
Summary:	"The U.S. Air Force leadership plans in the near term to identify and implement a range of initiatives for enhancing the service's contributions to irregular warfare (IW) operations and to meet DoD guidance that directs its components to "recognize that IW is as strategically important as traditional warfare." This monograph is the result of a "quick-turn" study to provide the leadership with a menu of actions it could consider both in the very near term and over an extended period to strengthen and expand the Air Force's capabilities to take part in joint and interagency efforts in irregular warfare. Rather than developing detailed endpoints for Air Force capabilities or structure in the future--e.g., what the USAF could look like in, say, 2015--the authors propose solution vectors that could enable the Air Force to move out quickly while continuing to consider responses to emerging demands in a dynamic IW environment."--Rand web site.

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Summary:	The U.S. Air Force leadership plans in the near term to identify and implement a range of initiatives for enhancing the service1s contributions to irregular warfare (IWW) operations. This monograph is the result of a 3quick-turn2 study to provide the leadership with a menu of actions it could consider to strengthen and expand the Air Force1s capabilities to take part in joint and interagency efforts in irregular warfare.
Item Description:	"Rand Project Air Force." "MG-913-AF"--P. [4] of cover.
Physical Description:	xxvi, 90 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-90).
ISBN:	9780833048745 0833048740