The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff published Joint Vision 2010, a
vision of how the services would conduct warfare in the 21st Century. Air Force
senior leaders applied those principals towards Air and Space superiority in the
future. The result was publication of “Global Engagement; A Vision for the 21st
Century Air Force”. Global Reach - Global Power, prepared the Air Force for the
transition era following the Cold War. Global Engagement charts the course that
will take the Service into the future where drastic changes in technology are
the norm, and will re-define the way we conduct warfare.
Air and Space Superiority
- Dominate enemy operations in all dimensions - Land, Sea, Air, and Space
- Freedom from attack - Freedom to attack
- Defense against ballistic and cruise missiles
- Common missile defense architecture
Global Attack
- Sustain Nuclear efforts - Strengthen response to proliferation
- Maintain bomber and land missile portion of Triad
- Refine Air Expeditionary Forces (AEF) rapid deployment for United States
- US based forces likely the primary means of force projection in crisis
Rapid Global Mobility
- Rapid attacks anywhere on the globe, combat ready in three days or
less
- Tailored Forces with very small footprint
- Build Air Bridge for joint forces
Precision Engagement
- Locate objectives, provide response, generate effect, and assess
success
- Retain flexibility to re-engage
- Apply measured and selective forces against specific targets
- Minimize risk and collateral damage
Information Superiority
- Global Awareness: Intelligence, Communications, Weather, and
Navigation support
- Global Interactive: Surface, Air, and Space Battlespace picture
- Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD)
- Defend information intensive capabilities
Agile Combat Support
- Highly responsive and agile forces
- Time definite resupply; privatization and outsourcing major tools
- Reach-Back capabilities to US, reducing size and vulnerability of forces
- Reduce the “ Factory to Flightline “ material lead-time requirements
