The Quick Response Air Force : Decisive Expeditionary Airpower for the Future?

By Major G. Larry Thompson, USAF

Book Id: WPLBN0002170707
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Reproduction Date: 10/22/2012

Title:	The Quick Response Air Force : Decisive Expeditionary Airpower for the Future?
Author:	Major G. Larry Thompson, USAF
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Military Science, Airpower
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Publisher:	Air University Press

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Citation APA MLA Chicago G. Larry Thompson, Usa, B. M. (n.d.). The Quick Response Air Force : Decisive Expeditionary Airpower for the Future?. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
This analysis concludes the answer is to reorganize existing forces into a Quick Response Airpower Force (QRAF). The QRAF concept involves a force structure that can help reduce the operations tempo in the DOD by replacing forward presence with a credible continental United States-based, quick response, deterrent force. This study presents a discussion and background of the problem, its importance, related problems, and past attempts at solutions. It offers a framework describing a quick response force and what it should be capable of doing. After discussing the current US Air Force attempts to provide this capability, the composite wing and the Airpower Expeditionary Force, the force of tomorrow—the threetiered QRAF—is presented. The study concludes with recommendations for further study, limitations of the analysis, and its implications.

Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . 2 2 THE PROBLEM . . . . 3 Notes . . . . . 8 3 THE FORCE REQUIREMENT . . . . 9 Notes . . . . . 13 4 THE FORCE TODAY . . . . 15 Notes . . . . . 25 5 THE FORCE TOMORROW . . . . 27 Notes . . . . . 31 6 CONCLUSION . . . . . 33 Notes . . . . . 37