1. United States Air Force: Air Doctrine – Provide Global Capability
Objective:
Know how the United States Air Force is structured in terms of missions and roles
Describe the characteristics, objectives and aircraft used to provide the United States Air Force a global attack capability

2. United States Air Force: Air Doctrine – Provide Global Capability
Joint Task List Review - Global Attack Capability
Strategic vs. Tactical
Strategic Attack Capabilities
Effects Based Operations
Counter Land Capabilities
Counter Sea Capabilities
Special Forces Capabilities

3. Joint Task List PROVIDE PRECISION ENGAGEMENT PROVIDE AIR AND SPACE
PROVIDE LETHAL PRECISION ENGAGEMENTCAPABILITIES
PROVIDE
NON-LETHAL PRECISION ENGAGEMENTCAPABILITIES
CSAR
CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE AIR AND SPACE
SUPERIORITY
PROVIDE COUNTER AIR CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE COUNTER SPACE CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE GLOBAL ATTACK
PROVIDE STRATEGIC ATTACK CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE COUNTERLAND CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE COUNTERSEA CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE SPECIAL FORCES CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE
INFORMATION
SUPERIORITY
INFORMATION OPERATIONS
CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE RAPID GLOBAL MOBILITY
PROVIDE AIRLIFT
CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE AIR REFULEING
PROVIDE SPACELIFT
PROVIDE
AEF

4. Strategic vs. Tactical
Strategic – def: “relating to the creation of strategy”
Strategic Plan
Usually sequentially driven
While this strategic plan development applies to military operations as well, in terms of capabilities the term “Strategic” is used to describe the overall effect of a specific operation.
To help simplify this definition, lets look at sports…

5. Strategic vs. Tactical Effects Based Operations Tactical
Warden’s COGs
Remember, its about the effect
The difficult part in comparing strategic vs. tactical effects is that sometimes a “tactical” event can have “strategic” consequences
Effects Based Operations
Strategic

6. Global Capability – Strategic Attack
Strategic Attack is defined as military action carried out against an enemy’s Center of Gravity (COG) or other vital target sets, including command elements,
war-production assets, and key supporting infrastructure

7. Global Capability – Counter Land
Counter Land Operations: Counter Land involves those operations conducted to attain and maintain a desired degree of superiority over surface operations by the destruction or neutralization of enemy surface forces. The main objective of this type of operation is to both dominate the surface environment and prevent the opponent from doing the same.
A-10
F-16
F-35
B-1
B-52

8. Global Capability – Counter Land
Air Interdiction
Counter Land Operations: Includes two subgroups:
Air Interdiction operations destroys, disrupts, diverts, or delays the enemy’s surface military potential before it can be used effectively against friendly forces, or otherwise achieve its objectives.
Close Air Support is the use of aerospace assets to directly support the ground force.
Close Air Support

9. Global Capability – Counter Sea
Counter Sea Operations are a collateral function that extends the application of Air Force power into the maritime environment. Specific Counter Sea missions include surface warfare (anti-ship), undersea warfare (anti-submarine), sea surveillance, and aerial mine-laying.

10. Global Capability – Special Operations
Special Operations employment is the use of special operations airpower, to conduct the following primary missions: unconventional warfare, direct action, special reconnaissance, combating terrorism, foreign internal defense, psychological operations (PSYOP), civil affairs, information operations, and counter proliferation

11. United States Air Force: Air Doctrine – Provide Global Capability
Objective:
Know how the United States Air Force is structured in terms of missions and roles
Describe the characteristics, objectives and aircraft used to provide the United States Air Force a global attack capability