Air Expeditionary Force. Taking the Air Force into the Twenty-first Century

摘要

With the demise of the Soviet Union and the resulting lone superpower status for the United States, revolutionary changes swept through the American military. For the United States Air Force, reorganization was probably the most dramatic and far-reaching change. Now, five years after reorganization, another innovative Air Force approach may very well have the same far-reaching implications for the application of American airpower. This new concept, the Air Expeditionary Force (AEF), makes the final transition from a force founded on the strategy of forward-based presence to one built on the vision of global engagement.