CADRE Quick-Look: Airspace Management in Global CONOPs (CENTAF CENTRIC)

摘要

It has been one year since the conclusion of the full-up combat operations of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Central Command Air Forces (CENTAF) has yet to release the lessons learned formulated by their expert airspace managers. OIF provided a unique opportunity for experienced airspace managers who had teamed together to prepare and execute Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) to work together again. OIF was the most complex, saturated, and intensive airspace scenario ever experienced. It is doubtful there will ever again be another major combat operation like it from the airspace point of view. It is imperative that the airspace management community benefit from the techniques and procedures those professionals developed in building and executing the OIF airspace plan. This issue of CADRE Quick-Look presents some notes derived from interviews with a number of airspace managers who participated in OIF.