A Composite Approach To Air Force Planning

Author : Paul K. Davis,Zalmay Khalilzad
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0833024337

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A Composite Approach to Air Force Planning by Paul K. Davis,Zalmay Khalilzad Pdf

After the 1996 Presidential election, the Department of Defense (DoD) will probably conduct a major review of national military strategy and the current basis of force planning, the Bottom-Up Review. In preparation for this review, what issues should the Air Force consider, what planning methods should be brought to bear, and when? The authors address these questions and note that there is no single best planning method. Different methods focus on and deal with different generic planning activities, and no method stands alone or constitutes a complete methodology. If undertaken by creative minds, most of the techniques discussed here will do a good job for the Air Force (and for the DoD more generally). But it is particularly important to allow and encourage participants to break the shackles of conventional wisdom--not only about current realities, but about what the nature of the future will be, about what "good" strategic planners are "supposed" to assume about the future, and what types and levels of forces are allegedly "required."

Author : Robert J. Lempert,Drake Warren,Ryan Henry,Robert W. Button,Jonathan Klenk,Kate Giglio
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833091673

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Defense Resource Planning Under Uncertainty by Robert J. Lempert,Drake Warren,Ryan Henry,Robert W. Button,Jonathan Klenk,Kate Giglio Pdf

Defense planning faces significant uncertainties. This report applies robust decision making (RDM) to the munitions mix challenge, to demonstrate how RDM could help defense planners make plans more robust to a wide range of hard-to-predict futures.

Author : Tim Sweijs,Saskia van Genugten,Frans Osinga
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781040098585

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Defence Planning for Small and Middle Powers by Tim Sweijs,Saskia van Genugten,Frans Osinga Pdf

This book examines the processes, practices and principles of defence planning in small and middle powers. Small and middle powers are recalibrating their force postures in this age of disruption. They are adapting their defence planning and military innovation processes to protect the security of their nations. The purpose of this book is to explore defence planning and military innovation in 11 contemporary case studies of small and middle powers in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania. Employing a structured focused comparison framework, it traces patterns in the choices of small and middle powers across the following themes: (1) alliances, dependencies and national ambitions; (2) approaches, processes, methods and techniques; and (3) military innovation strategies and outcomes. Breaking new theoretical ground, it offers a three-pronged typology distinguishing between the strategic defence planner, the transactional defence planners and the complacent defence planner. The book offers a rich array of insights into cases that fall across different geographies, strategic cultures and governance systems. These insights can help guide discussions on how to structure decision-making structures, arrive at ambition levels, formulate priorities, select partners and design defence planning and military innovation processes. This book will be of much interest to students of defence studies, security studies, public policy and international relations, as well as to professionals in defence planning.

Author : James A. Dewar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521001269

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Assumption-Based Planning by James A. Dewar Pdf

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Author : Stuart E. Johnson,Martin C. Libicki,Gregory F. Treverton
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833034106

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New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking by Stuart E. Johnson,Martin C. Libicki,Gregory F. Treverton Pdf

It is still easy to underestimate how much the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War?--and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001?--transformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. In place of predictability (if a sometimes terrifying predictability), the world is now very unpredictable. In place of a single overriding threat and benchmark by which all else could be measured, a number of possible threats have arisen, not all of them states. In place of force-on-force engagements, U.S. defense planners have to assume "asymmetric" threats?--ways not to defeat U.S. power but to render it irrelevant. This book frames the challenges for defense policy that the transformed world engenders, and it sketches new tools for dealing with those challenges?--from new techniques in modeling and gaming, to planning based on capabilities rather than threats, to personnel planning and making use of "best practices" from the private sector.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Air Force Studies Board,Committee on Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of U.S. Air Force Pre-Acquisition Development Planning
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309313681

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Development Planning by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Air Force Studies Board,Committee on Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of U.S. Air Force Pre-Acquisition Development Planning Pdf

The development and application of technology has been an essential part of U.S. airpower, leading to a century of air supremacy. But that developmental path has rarely been straight, and it has never been smooth. Only the extraordinary efforts of exceptional leadership - in the Air Forces and the wider Department of Defense, in science and in industry - have made the triumphs of military airpower possible. Development Planning provides recommendations to improve development planning for near-term acquisition projects, concepts not quite ready for acquisition, corporate strategic plans, and training of acquisition personnel. This report reviews past uses of development planning by the Air Force, and offers an organizational construct that will help the Air Force across its core functions. Developmental planning, used properly by experienced practitioners, can provide the Air Force leadership with a tool to answer the critical question, Over the next 20 years in 5-year increments, what capability gaps will the Air Force have that must be filled? Development planning will also provide for development of the workforce skills needed to think strategically and to defectively define and close the capability gap. This report describes what development planning could be and should be for the Air Force.

Author : Paul K. Davis,Jonathan Kulick,Michael Egner
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780833038081

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Implications of Modern Decision Science for Military Decision-support Systems by Paul K. Davis,Jonathan Kulick,Michael Egner Pdf

A selective review of modern decision science and implications for decision-support systems. The study suggests ways to synthesize lessons from research on heuristics and biases with those from "naturalistic research." It also discusses modern tools, such as increasingly realistic simulations, multiresolution modeling, and exploratory analysis, which can assist decisionmakers in choosing strategies that are flexible, adaptive, and robust.

Author : Rand Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Research
ISBN : UCSD:31822022937346

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Annual Report by Rand Corporation Pdf

Author : Gerry E. Hendershot,Karl E. Bauman
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service National Center for Health Statistics
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0840602227

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Use of Services for Family Planning and Infertility, United States by Gerry E. Hendershot,Karl E. Bauman Pdf

Author : Randall Wakelam,David Varey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813180274

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Educating Air Forces by Randall Wakelam,David Varey Pdf

Compared to armies and navies, which have existed as professional fighting services for centuries, the technology that makes air forces possible is much newer. As a result, these services have had to quickly develop methods of preparing aviators to operate in conditions ranging from peace or routine security to full-scale war. The first book to address the history and scope of air power professionalization through learning programs, Educating Air Forces offers valuable new insight into strategy and tactics worldwide. Here, a group of international experts examine the philosophies, policies, and practices of air service educational efforts in the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, Canada, and the UK. The contributors discuss the founding, successes, and failures of European air force learning programs between the Great War and World War II and explore how the tense Cold War political climate influenced the creation, curriculum, and results of various programs. They also consider how educational programs are adapting to soldiers' needs and the demands of modern warfare. Featuring contributions from eminent scholars in the field, this volume surveys the learning approaches globally employed by air forces in the past century and evaluates their effectiveness. Educating Air Forces reveals how experiential learning and formal education are not only inextricably intertwined, but also necessary to cope with advances in modern warfare.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : UIUC:30112105111204

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FY ... US Air Force Plan for Defense Research Sciences by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Air forces
ISBN : UIUC:30112033980316

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Air Force Organization by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030205785

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Idaho Training Range, Draft Plan Amendment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112101047931

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Air Force Journal of Logistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Desmond Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCSD:31822028395713

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Maintaining the Strategic Edge by Desmond Ball Pdf