The Four-Year Sprint

摘要

Gen.John P.Jumper's agenda for his term as Air Force Chief of Staff didn't change very much when one of his first days on the job)—Sept. 11,2001—turned out differently from what anyone expected. Given the stresses caused by the terrorist attacks and challenging back-to-back major military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, it would have been easy to defer plans for reinventing the Air Force until things calmed down. Instead Jumper thought it even more urgent to push "effects-based programming." It was a dramatic change in service culture, aimed at meeting new USAF requirements, whenever possible, with innovative ideas and existing capabilities, not with expansive demands for new weapons and hardware.