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Military Operations Against Terrorist Groups Abroad Implications for the United States Air Force

Although military power is only one component of the portfolio of instruments that can be brought to bear in the fight against terrorist groups, military capabilities play unique and crucial roles in the overall strategy. These capabilities will call for a mix of forces somewhat different from those fielded today as well as new concepts and technologies. Equally challenging will be the tasks of training/advising friendly forces and protecting forces and interests around the world.

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  • "Although military power is only one component of the portfolio of instruments that can be brought to bear in the fight against terrorist groups, military capabilities play unique and crucial roles in the overall strategy. These capabilities will call for a mix of forces somewhat different from those fielded today as well as new concepts and technologies. Equally challenging will be the tasks of training/advising friendly forces and protecting forces and interests around the world."@en
  • "Although military power is only one component of the portfolio of instruments that can be brought to bear in the fight against terrorist groups, military capabilities play unique and crucial roles in the overall strategy. These capabilities will call for a mix of forces somewhat different from those fielded today as well as new concepts and technologies. Equally challenging will be the tasks of training/advising friendly forces and protecting forces and interests around the world."
  • "The threat posed by international terrorists to Americans and their way of life has placed new demands on the national security apparatus of the United States. The purpose of this study is to help defense planners anticipate the types of demands that future operations against terrorists will place on the armed forces of the United States, particularly the United States Air Force. The discussion focuses on the main determinant of those demands -- efforts to disrupt or destroy terrorist groups by attacking them abroad. For many years, U.S. planners and operational commanders alike have worked from a shared picture of the basic concepts and strategies that would govern the operations of forces in major theater conflicts. This study provides an analogous "generic" strategy for U.S. military operations against terrorist groups overseas. In addition to spelling out the key components of that strategy, it offers ideas about the types of capabilities that air forces will likely be called upon to provide in executing it. Following an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 examines the "generic" operational strategy, one that would strengthen the capabilities and will of host-country forces, disrupt the activities of terrorists, alienate terrorists from the populace, gather intelligence about terrorist networks and activities, protect friendly forces and bases, find and capture or kill terrorists, and prevent terrorists from acquiring or using Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear (CBRN) weapons. Chapter 3 presents new concepts for locating and attacking terrorists and related targets, including wide-area surveillance, high-resolution sensors, dynamic engagement control, advanced weapons, and destruction of stocks of CBRN weapons. Chapter 4, examines the new "steady state" and its implications for force planning."@en
  • "The imperative to monitor, suppress, attack, and ultimately eradicate international terrorist groups seeking to strike the United States, its citizens, its interests, and its allies is prompting significant changes in the demands placed on the armed forces of the United States. U.S. forces will often be called upon to assist foreign governments that wish to eradicate terrorist groups on their territory but lack the capabilities to do so on their own. In such cases, U.S. forces can strengthen the capabilities and will of host-government forces by providing training and equipment, disrupt terrorist activities, find and capture or kill terrorists, help to alienate terrorists from the populace, gather intelligence about terrorist networks and activities around the world, and protect friendly forces and bases. In effective counterterrorist activities, the host nation will play the leading role in hunting down terrorists, the terrorists will be under relentless pressure and forced to react to government-initiated operations, operations will depend on accurate information about the terrorists or insurgents, and the host government will win the support of the populace, depriving the terrorists of support. Effective concepts of execution for locating and engaging terrorists might employ wide-area surveillance sensors, high-resolution sensors, dynamic engagement control, and precision-guided weapons with small warheads."@en

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