Air And Space Forces In Military Operations
Doctrine foundation
1. It is officially certified beliefs, warfighting principles, and terminology that describes and guides the proper use of air and space forces in military operations.
2. Doctrine forms the way to organizes, trains, and Equips. It consists of the basic principles by which military forces guide their actions in support of national objectives. It is gathering of knowledge gained primarily from the study and analysis of experience.
3. Unity of command is vital in employing air and space forces. It can be tactical, operational, or strategic objectives, in any combination, or all three simultaneously. Centralized control and decentralized execution are critical to effective employment of air and space power.
Doctrine
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Doctrine is, after all, those beliefs, distilled through experience and passed on from one generation of airmen to the next, that guide what we do, it is our codified practices on how best to employ air and space power.
What Constitutes Good Doctrine
6. Good doctrine informs, provides a sound departure point, and allows flexibility. Bad doctrine overly bounds and restricts creativity. If not properly developed, and especially if parochialism is allowed to creep in, doctrine will point to suboptimal solutions. Parochialism and other biases can come from within a Service as well as between Services. Professionals will still have honest differences of opinions, but when those opinions are not based on sound warfighting practices, inefficiency and ineffectiveness frequently result. Good doctrine can help, but it must be intelligently applied.
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Military strategy resides just below grand strategy and should in theory bring detail to the grand strategic use of the military instrument of power. It is “the direction and use made of force and the threat of force for the purpose of policy as decided by politics.” Quoting Gray, “the hierarchy [of strategies] is clear enough in principle, but in practice the traffic among the levels policy, grand strategy, overall military strategy, joint and single-geography strategies should be continuous. Feedback, feed-up, feed-down, and feed across and adaption are the key terms describing how strategy is designed, defined, and applied in
1. It is officially certified beliefs, warfighting principles, and terminology that describes and guides the proper use of air and space forces in military operations.
2. Doctrine forms the way to organizes, trains, and Equips. It consists of the basic principles by which military forces guide their actions in support of national objectives. It is gathering of knowledge gained primarily from the study and analysis of experience.
3. Unity of command is vital in employing air and space forces. It can be tactical, operational, or strategic objectives, in any combination, or all three simultaneously. Centralized control and decentralized execution are critical to effective employment of air and space power.
Doctrine
4. It …show more content…
Doctrine is, after all, those beliefs, distilled through experience and passed on from one generation of airmen to the next, that guide what we do, it is our codified practices on how best to employ air and space power.
What Constitutes Good Doctrine
6. Good doctrine informs, provides a sound departure point, and allows flexibility. Bad doctrine overly bounds and restricts creativity. If not properly developed, and especially if parochialism is allowed to creep in, doctrine will point to suboptimal solutions. Parochialism and other biases can come from within a Service as well as between Services. Professionals will still have honest differences of opinions, but when those opinions are not based on sound warfighting practices, inefficiency and ineffectiveness frequently result. Good doctrine can help, but it must be intelligently applied.
Types Of …show more content…
Military strategy resides just below grand strategy and should in theory bring detail to the grand strategic use of the military instrument of power. It is “the direction and use made of force and the threat of force for the purpose of policy as decided by politics.” Quoting Gray, “the hierarchy [of strategies] is clear enough in principle, but in practice the traffic among the levels policy, grand strategy, overall military strategy, joint and single-geography strategies should be continuous. Feedback, feed-up, feed-down, and feed across and adaption are the key terms describing how strategy is designed, defined, and applied in