UK aims to maintain air-land integration post-Afghanistan

摘要

Staff at the UK armed forces' Joint Air Land Organisation (JALO), HQ Air Command, are striving to ensure that lessons learned in Afghanistan regarding the integration of air and land forces are not lost as the UK shifts its strategic focus back to planning for contingency operations. Speaking on 25 September at the IQPC Close Air Support conference in London, Group Captain Mark Gorringe, the JALO chief of staff, said that, from a low point during the Kosovo campaign in 1999, the UK's air-land integration (ALI) is now the strongest it has ever been, but the challenge now is to maintain this out to beyond the 2014 pull-out date from Afghanistan.