Purchase Solution

Planning and employing U.S. joint air and space operations during irregular warfare

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

I need help understanding how the people, processes, and products of the Joint Air Operations Center address, or fail to address, the unique challenges of planning and employing joint air and space operations in the context of irregular warfare. I need to understand what needs to be modified to meet those challenges.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The expert examines planning and employing United States joint air and space operations during irregular warfare.

Solution Preview

Thank you for using BrainMass! You raise a very important question, one that will determine the future of U.S. and NATO strategic capabilities in defeating existential threats imposed by terrorists, international crime syndicates and nation-states that use asymmetrical warfare tactics against conventional powers. This response will discuss the implications that irregular warfare (IW) has on conventional powers, what the U.S. military, specifically the Joint Air Operations Center (JAOC), can do to be prepared to handle these threats, and the role of the JAOC and its plans to implement effective strategies to counter IW.

We must first start by understanding what irregular warfare is. As Air Force General Curtis E. Lemay stated, "In this type of war, you cannot and must not measure the effectiveness of the effort by the number of bridges, destroyed, buildings damaged, vehicles burned or any other standards that have been used in conventional warfare. The task is to destroy the effectiveness of the insurgents' efforts and his ability to use the population for his own ends." There are a plethora of adversaries, emanating from terrorists to criminal networks, who use asymmetrical and irregular forms of warfare as a way to challenge US and ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Canadian Politics

A brief look into various aspects of Canadian Politics.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Air Superiority and Irregular Warfare

    This is a particularly difficult challenge in irregular warfare, largely due to the fact that the more powerful nation will usually have the greatest amount of air power and control of the air over the battlefield, and the less powerful military force

  • ISR: mission and joint function relation analysis

    Each branch have their own means conducting and applying ISR as it supports mission and joint operations. ISR thus encompasses multiple activities across the branches through planning and operations.

  • Waterways and International Terrorism

    Land power, in concert with air and sea power,can conduct prompt and sustained joint and combined operations during peace, crisis, and war.

  • Military intervention

    And further, in terms of irregular warfare approaches, This conflict is a prolonged irregular campaign, a violent struggle for legitimacy and influence over the population.

  • Operation Intelligence: Characteristics of Successful Warfare si

    The 1991 Gulf War for example conveyed precise intelligence so quickly to the Allied forces that it has led to the founding of the US National Military Joint Intelligence to provide crisis support to military operations.

  • Development of Space Power

    (www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Giulio_Douhet.aspx)(classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html) This solution of 557 words describes how the development of space power has impacted theories of warfare including air power and land power.

  • Developing Military Leaders for a Steady-State, or Day-to-Day Environment in a Foriegn Country

    This is one way the US military already successfully influences shaping operations across the globe. Deterrence and prevention are primary military roles during peacetime operations.

  • US Air Force in Management

    "Air and Space Superiority : With it, joint forces can dominate enemy operations in all dimensions -- land, sea, air and space.

  • US Military Fiscal Constraints: Prioritizing Capabilities

    Reflecting lessons learned of the past decade, we will continue to build and sustain tailored capabilities appropriate for counter terrorism and irregular warfare.

View More Related Solutions