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Flashcards by Andrew Beavers, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Andrew Beavers
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| Question | Answer |
| Briefly summarize Military Theory | Military Theory: the scientific, artistic, and philosophical idea or view relating to principles, methods, rules, and operations of war. |
| Breifly summerize Principles of War: | Principles of War: “those aspects of warfare that is universally true and relevant.” They are: unity of command, objective, offensive, mass, maneuver, economy of force, security, surprise, and simplicity. |
| What is Air Force Doctrine: | Air Force Doctrine: a statement of officially sanctioned beliefs, war fighting principles, and terminology that describes and guides the proper use of air, space, and cyberspace power in military operations. |
| What is U.S. Strategy: | U.S. Strategy: the art and science of developing and employing instruments of national power in a synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve theater, national, and/or multinational objectives. |
| ________ guides the proper organization and employment of forces in the context of distinct objective, force capabilities, and broad functional areas. | operational |
| _________ describes the proper employment of specific Air Force assets, individually or in concert with other assets, to accomplish detailed objectives. | tactical |
| Explain how tactical actions potentially affect the mission success in a JIIM. | Tactical actions are used in battle such as ambushes, seeking and turning flanks, maintaining reconnaissance, and creating and using obstacles and defenses. The enemies’ tactics are changing like the use of IEDs. If you don’t change your tactics to fight against the enemy, your mission could fail. |
| _____________________ and _____________________ focus on deterring war, resolving conflict, promoting peace, irregular warfare, national disasters, and supporting civil authorities in response to domestic crisis. (Fill in the blank.) | Crisis response and contingency operations focus on deterring war, resolving conflict, promoting peace, irregular warfare, national disasters, and supporting civil authorities in response to domestic crisis. |
| What is homeland defense | The protection of U.S. sovereignty, territory, domestic population, and critical defense infrastructure against external threats and aggression. |
| What is civil support | DOD support to U.S. civil authorities for domestic emergencies and for designated law enforcement and other activities. |
| What is adversarial crisis | An operation in which there is an enemy that our energies are being directed toward. |
| What is non-adversarial crisis | Term used to describe how operational Airmen accomplish missions that are not war but responses to a crisis or contingency. |
| A Joint Interagency, Intergovernmental, Multinational environment is often referred to as _____________? | Joint |
| A series of activities, operations, or organizations in which elements of two or more military departments participate to achieve strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space is known as a ________________________? | Joint Campaign |
| What is traditional warfare | A confrontation between national states or coalitions/ alliances of nation-states. |
| what is irregular warfare | A violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant populations. |
| List three key operational Air Force capabilities that are provided through airpower. | Strategic Attack, Counterair, Counterland, Air Interdiction, Countersea, Combat Support, Airlift, Air Refueling, and Special Operations. |
| Name two fundamental concepts of traditional warfare. | A confrontation between nation-states or coalitions/alliances of nation-states. Typically involves force-on-force military operations in which adversaries employ a variety of conventional military capabilities against each other in the air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace domains. The objectives may be to convince or coerce key military or political decision makers, defeat an adversary’s armed forces, destroy an adversary’s war-making capacity, or seize or retain territory in order to force a change in an adversary’s government or policies. |
| Name two fundamental concepts of irregular warfare. | A violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant populations. Combatants are irregular military rather than regular forces, like guerrilla or asymmetric warfare. They may employ the full range of military and other capabilities, in order to erode an adversary’s power, influence, and will. Will test the resolve of a state and its strategic partner |
| Summarize how the Air Force capabilities of air, space, and cyberspace relate to and complement other U.S. Air Force units or service capabilities. | All operations require some sort of collaboration between units or services. The Joint environment requires all units/services to work together to accomplish the mission. Without Air Force capabilities you would not have control of air, space, or cyberspace making it hard to accomplish any mission. |
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