This report offers insights into the U.S. Department of the Air Force's (DAF's) role in meeting the objectives of the National Defense Strategy (NDS) generally and the core concept of integrated deterrence specifically. The DAF offers many capabilities critical to the execution of U.S. warfighting goals in ways that support the concepts of the NDS, but the particular emphasis of integrated deterrence might have more-interesting implications for the DAF.
Authors
- Division
- RAND Project AIR FORCE Strategy and Doctrine Program
- Pages
- 20
- Published in
- United States
- RAND Identifier
- RR-A2311-2
- RAND Type
- report
- Rights
- RAND Corporation
- Series
- Research Reports
- Source
- https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2311-2.html
Table of Contents
- Integrated Deterrence Defining a Concept 3
- Basic Claims and Ideas 3
- Challenges and Limitations 4
- Aligning defense efforts to the concept of integrated deterrence does not demand a radical departure from existing practices. 4
- There has always been some trade-off between devoting full attention to DAF and wider joint force readiness and warfighting capability and efforts to integrate with allies and partners. 5
- The Department of the Air Force and Integrated Deterrence Official Statements 6
- USSFs role in the integrated deterrence concept revolves around the important capabilities that it contributes to the joint force and U.S. allies and partners. 6
- The Promise of Integrated by Design 7
- An especially important aspect of USSFs role in integrated deterrence over time will be the development of resilient proliferated architectures. 7
- DAF faces many challenges in implementing the concept beginning with a lack of prioritization of the efforts that are required to work more closely with allies and partners. 8
- Defining the Department of the Air Forces Role in Integrated Deterrence 9
- The Baseline A Combat-Credible Department of the Air Force as the Foundation for Deterrence 9
- One area of concern relative to the demands of the NDS and its sense of urgency about the trajectory of military trends is the speed with which DAF is moving to address these issues. 9
- Leveraging Synergies Joint and Interagency Integration 10
- From the standpoint of generating combat- credible USAF and USSF capabilities the gap between DAF plans and the requirements of the NDS and integrated deterrence is not mainly a matter of substance. 10
- Integration with Allies and Partners for Warfighting Effectiveness 11
- DAF could accelerate plans to enhance ally and partner collaboration in the space domain 13
- Collaboration in space requires a tailored strategy which includes different types of activities and different types of risk assessments in terms of where and when to pursue partnership opportunities. 13
- DAF could seek to opera- tionalize its air and space advising capability 14
- DAF could expand the use of Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve elements in ally 14
- Notes 15
- References 18
