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Evolving Joint Intratheater Airlift

Evolving Joint Intratheater Airlift

Tulley, Daniel

Paperback

AviationGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1288254695
ISBN13: 9781288254699
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Published: Nov 9 2012
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The non-sexy nature of intratheater airlift does not draw much attention to its results. Thousands of personnel have returned home safely from two wars sustained half way around the world for almost a decade. Still, it is not truly a Joint enterprise. The Army and Marine Corps have their own organic fleets and the Air Force has none. Air Force planes are dedicated to the common user system, which sees little contribution from the other services. This system is managed by Air Force command and control, and it falls under the umbrella of Joint doctrine. There are significant gaps between the doctrine and actual outcomes. This paper examines the underlying issues and context to distill lessons aimed at better Joint intratheater airlift. Six enduring narratives are presented: roles and missions debates, effectiveness versus efficiency, support for the ground component, strategic versus tactical, centralized versus de-centralized and common user versus direct support. This framework in turn generates several broad recommendations: 1) The Air Force should resolve the direct support issue once and for all; 2) Intratheater airlift should be managed strategically while enabling de- centralized success; and 3) The key is execution management.

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