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52 AIR & SPACE POWER JOURNAL FALL 20068. “Validating the Abrogation of Joint Service Agreement8,” AF/XOS-F staff package, 18 November 2004.9. Col Bradley Spacy, director of force protection, US-CENTAF (Task Force 1041 presentation, HeadquartersUSAF Threat Working Group, 28 April 2005).10. Joint Publication 3-10, “Joint Security Operationsin Theater,” final draft, November 2005, II-2.11. Headquarters USAF/XOS-F, briefing, Commandand Control General Officer Steering Group, subject: IntegratedBase Defense Command and Control, 3 November2004.12. Air Force Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures 3-10.2, “Integrated Base Defense Command and Control,”draft [topline coordination copy], 1 April 2006, 14.13. Lt Col John Busch, AF/A7SO, white paper, InstitutionalizingForce Protection Intelligence (Washington, DC:Headquarters USAF/A7S, n.d.).14. Integrated defense involves providing a secure operatingenvironment for base commanders to generateand sustain combat power for joint war-fighting operations.Headquarters USAF/A7S, “DOTMLPF ChangeRecommendation for Integrated Defense” (Washington,DC: Headquarters USAF/A7S, 14 April 2006).15. Air Force Instruction 10-246, “Installation Armingand Response,” draft [four-digit coordination package],17 January 2006.16. Long-Term Integration of Expeditionary Airmen Conceptsinto the Air Force, Chartered Expeditionary AirmenIntegrated Process Team Report (Washington, DC: HeadquartersUSAF/XO, July 2005), 10.17. Minutes of the USAF General Officer Air BaseOpening Tabletop Exercise, Headquarters Air Force SecurityForces, 6 April 2006.18. CRGs provide “a unique subset of capabilities designedspecifically to respond rapidly to contingencies aswell as secure and protect airfields, rapidly assess andopen air bases, and perform initial airfield / air base operationsto ensure a smooth transition to subsequent operations.”See Alexander M. Wathen, “Contingency ResponseGroup: Time to Expand the Box and Think ‘Coalition,’” Air and Space Power Journal 19, no. 2 (Summer2005): 70.19. Grant, briefing.
New USAF Doctrine PublicationAir Force Doctrine Document 2-1.9, TargetingLT COL J. P. HUNERWADEL, USAF, RETIREDTARGETING HAS BEEN a vital partof air and space operations since anaircraft dropped the first weapon. Ithas evolved from a matter of primitiveguesswork into a discipline based on scientificprinciples and robust processes. Thesefacts are the subject of the Air Force’s newestdoctrine document, AFDD 2-1.9, Targeting, 8June 2006 (http://afdc.maxwell.af.mil).Prior to the appearance of AFDD 2-1.9,most Air Force writing on this difficult subjecttreated it as a separate discipline. Air Force seniorleadership, however, concluded that doctrineon targeting should show the larger contextinto which it fits. A distinct discipline andoperation, targeting also remains an inseparablepart of the overarching processes thatthe Air Force and joint community use to planand fight. As the new document states, “Targetingis integral to the air and space component’swartime battle rhythm and should alwaysbe thought of as part of a larger effects-basedconstruct of planning, execution, and assessment”(vii, 2).AFDD 2-1.9 helps establish this context byexpanding the definition of its subject: “Targetingis the process for selecting and prioritizingtargets and matching appropriate actionsto those targets to create specific desiredeffects that achieve objectives, taking accountof operational requirements and capabilities”(vii, 1). In simpler terms, “targeting helpstranslate strategy into discrete actions againsttargets by matching ways to means” (1). Importantly,the new definition explicitly ties itselfto effects-based operations, whose conceptsand principles AFDD 2-1.9 recaps, explainingthat targeting really involves the best way ofachieving effects with given resources. It encompassesmore than just putting the rightkind of bomb on a fixed target.The doctrine document lays out the followingprecepts, expanding upon existing jointprinciples to offer a comprehensive view ofthe discipline:• Targeting focuses on achieving objectives—itis the end of strategy that developscourses of action, goals, and effectsinto detailed actions against targets.• Fundamentally effects-based, targetingshould consider all possible ways of creatingdesired effects and not focus justupon destruction or other “traditional”means.• Targeting is part of a larger set of processes,including formal planning, thejoint air estimate process, and the taskingcycle that ultimately produces guidancesuch as the daily air tasking order.• Because of targeting’s interdisciplinarynature, it requires the efforts of personnelfrom many functional areas—notsimply “operators” or “intel types.”• Targeting is inherently estimative and anticipatory;that is, matching actions andeffects to targets requires estimating andanticipating future outcomes.53
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