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New Defense Strategy’s Impact on AF Strategic Planning

Mr Jim Brooks, SES, DAF Deputy Director

AF Strategic Planning 7 Feb 2012

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Bottom Line

Strategy – Planning – Programming – Resources

Tough, unclear fiscal and security environment

We still have and will have the world’s best Air Force

Airmen and citizen partners are key to shaping and articulating the future

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“...The Air Force has made the hard choices to support the new strategic guidance …. And we

will be a smaller but superb force that maintains our agility, our flexibility and

readiness to engage a full range of contingencies and threats.”

-General Norton Schwartz,

Air Force Chief of Staff

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Inflection Points

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Containment and

Collective Security

Regional Operations and Stability

Defeat Violent Extremism

Cold War Post Cold War New Millennium The Future

Strategic Deterrence

Air Space Control

Power Projection

Global Reach

Global Power

Overseas Contingency Operations

Precision Strike Strategic Deterrence

Irregular Warfare

Nuclear Deterrence

ISR

Building Partnerships

Grand Strategy

Global Vigilance

Global Reach

Global Power

Air Force Strategy

Focus Areas

Agile, Flexible, Rapidly Deployable

Rebalance Global Posture, Asia Pacific

Middle East

Confront and Defeat Aggression

Project and Prioritize key investments and to

rapidly mobilize

Full Spectrum Rebalancing?

Enduring Capabilities

A2AD

Combat Forces

Preferred Munitions

Space and Cyber

Right Sized Lift

Maintain presence elsewhere, Build

Partnerships, Strengthen Alliances

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New DoD Strategy

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Defend the Homeland & Provide Support to

Civil Authorities

Counter-Terrorism &

Irregular Warfare

Conduct Stability &

Counterinsurgency Ops

Conduct Humanitarian,

Disaster Relief, & Other Operations

Counter Weapons Of

Mass Destruction

Deter & Defeat Aggression

Maintain a Safe, Secure,

& Effective Nuclear Deterrent

Operate Effectively In

Cyber & Space

Project Power Despite A2/AD Challenges

Provide a Stabilizing Presence

Joint Force

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New DoD Strategy

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Defend the Homeland & Provide Support to

Civil Authorities

Counter-Terrorism &

Irregular Warfare

Conduct Stability &

Counterinsurgency Ops

Conduct Humanitarian,

Disaster Relief, & Other Operations

Counter Weapons Of

Mass Destruction

Deter & Defeat Aggression

Maintain a Safe, Secure,

& Effective Nuclear Deterrent

Operate Effectively In

Cyber & Space

Project Power Despite A2/AD Challenges

Provide a Stabilizing Presence

Joint Force

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Agile Combat Support

U S A F R E S O U R C E S

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Joint Force

Missions

Counter Terrorism

Irregular Warfare

Deter & Defeat Aggression

Effective Nuclear

Deterrent

Homeland Defense & Civil Support

Project Power Despite

A2/AD Challenges

Counter WMD

Effective Cyber & Space Operations

Provide Stabilizing

Presence

Counterinsurgency Operations

Humanitarian,

Disaster Relief, & other Operations

Global Power

Global Vigilance

Global Reach

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Air Force Role in DoD Strategy

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The Air Force provides enduring contributions across all domains: Air and Space Control

Global Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Rapid Global Mobility

Global Strike Command and Control of Air, Space, and Cyberspace Systems

“We are making deliberate strategic choices about the key programs and capabilities that need to go forward so that we still have the finest military in the world 10 years from now.”

Michael B. Donley, Secretary of the Air Force

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Implications for Special Operations

AF underpins special operations throughout the “SOF domain” and missions

Deployed forward Among the people Covert Small footprint Self-reliant Fast acting Precise Kill Chain

Specialized air mobility Precision strike Battlefield air operations ISR Agile Combat Support Command and Control Aviation FID Info Ops/Military Info Support

Operations

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Your Air Force

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DoD Budget Authority

Air Force Budget Authority

Our Air Force will be smaller – but fully capable Getting much smaller would require us to re-look assumptions

Our Air Force has changed dramatically since Desert Storm Tested hard: strike, CAS, ISR, space, cyber, battlefield airmen, regional

competency Active, Guard, and Reserve all integrally involved in two decades of

combat – enduring approach Unmanned platforms are part of our DNA – and still evolving

Our Air Force will remain fundamental to the nation’s power—intellectually, industrially, militarily

Our Air Force will protect readiness at any force level and strengthen our integration across the Total Force

America is an aerospace nation and its Air Force will remain the world’s best through its innovation and adaptability

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