- Combat Air Force leaders define strategy for 21st Century
Top Air Force leaders from the eight commands representing the Combat Air
Force (CAF) recently signed the 2010 Combat Air Force strategic plan, a historical plan formalizing the way the CAF plans to provide options for
ensuring the nation's security. From the ultimate backstop of our nation's
defense, nuclear deterrance, to the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the long war on terror and across the full spectrum of conflict--this strategic plan defines how the CAF defends our Nation now and in the future.
- The strategic plan includes everyone in Combat Air Force
The plan, titled 'Securing the High Ground: Agile Combat Airpower,' provides guidance to all CAF Airmen, from those just entering the service to those in the upper tiers of command.
- The core of the CAF is Airmen
Those active duty, reservists, guard members and civilians who maintain, service, support, protect, supply and execute the mission. The CAF is the Nation's deterrence and response force of first and last resort, capable of delivering precise effects across the full spectrum of conflict globally and rapidly in its defense. This flexibility and responsiveness provides the Nation the agile combat power it needs from its air, space and cyberspace forces.
- The strategic plan lays out a framework to deter potential enemies and
defeat those who threaten our national security
Securing the High Ground is framed in terms of ends, ways and means. It outlines how the CAF will defend the Nation in the most likely and most challenging strategic environments. The outcome will provide the Nation agile combat airpower and ensure the CAF meets or exceeds the expectations of the joint force in the current fight, provides strategic deterrence against potential adversaries and is ready and able to win any future conflicts.
- To meet the nation's security needs
The CAF has and will continue to provide warfighters with the most capable
airpower in the world, engaging with partner nations, deterring adversaries
before they take action and swiftly defeating enemies that threaten our national interests. To ensure our Nation's security and its global interests we must always maintain this status; our vision will be backed by credible performance and capabilities. We must focus our efforts on achieving this vision. Dominant combat airpower does more than just ensure success during conflicts. It deters adversaries from threatening not only our interests, but those of our allies, partners, and like-minded nations.
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