AS 1020 Final
______ provide joint force commanders with ready and complete air and space force packages that can be tailored to meet the spectrum of contingencies.
Air Expeditionary Forces
What principle of war attacks the enemy at a time, place, or in a manner for which they are not prepared?
Surprise
What tenet of airpower is a coordinated force across multiple domains that can produce effects exceeding the contributions of forces employed individually?
Synergistic Effects
What principle of war is the judicious employment and distribution of forces?
Economy of Force
What tenet of airpower is the dynamic and correct balancing of the principles of joint operations and the tenets of airpower to bring Air Force capabilities together to produce synergistic effects?
Balance
Air Force Global Strike Command
Barksdale AFB, Louisiana Develop and provide combat-ready forces for nuclear deterrence and global strike operations... safe, secure and effective... to support the president of the US and combatant commanders.
What tenet of airpower ensures control by a single Airman who maintains the broad, strategic perspective necessary to balance and prioritize the use of a powerful, highly desired yet limited force?
Centralized Control
What is the function of the Secretary of the Air Force?
Conduct the administrative affairs of the Air Force and Space Force, to include fiscal spending, production, procurement, and legal plans and programs.
What tenet of airpower the ability to employ airpower effectively at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war and provide a wide variety of tasks in concert with other joint force elements?
Decentralized Execution
What tenet of airpower allows airpower to exploit mass and maneuver simultaneously?
Flexibility
Which of the following lists the three factors that dominate war Clausewitz?
Friction, Fog and Chance
Which of the following are the four groups comprising a "typical" Air Force Wing?
Maintenance, Mission Support, Medical, and Operations Groups
Air Force Special Operations Command
Hurlburt Field, Florida America's specialized airpower... a step ahead in a changing world, delivering special operation power anytime, anywhere
This form of warfare focuses on affecting peoples' behaviors and relationships
Irregular
What principle of war places the enemy in a position of disadvantage through the flexible application of combat power in a multidimensional combat space?
Maneuver
What principle of war is to concentrate the effects of combat power at the most advantageous place and time to achieve decisive results?
Mass
Air Combat Command
Joint Base Langley-Eustis, VA Primary force provider of combat airpower to America's warfighting commands
Pacific Air Forces Command
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Hawaii Provides US Pacific Command integrated expeditionary AF capabilities to defend the homeland, promote stability, dissuade/deter aggression and swiftly defeat enemies
Air Education and Training Command
Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas Develops America's Airmen today for tomorrow
What is the function of the Air Force Chief of Staff (CSAF)?
Maintains responsibility for the efficiency and operational readiness for the Air Force.
What principle of war is to direct military operations toward a defined and attainable objective that contributes to strategic, operational, and tactical aims?
Objective
What principle of war aims to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative?
Offensive
What tenet of airpower applies speed and range to allow its forces to visit and revisit wide ranges of targets nearly at will?
Persistance
What tenet of airpower is establishing clear priorities for the use of airpower?
Priority
United States Air Forces Europe
Ramstein AB, Germany Directs air operation in a theater spanning three continents, covering more than eight million square miles, containing 51 independent states and possessing one-eighth of the world's population and one fourth of the world's gross domestic product.
Air Force Reserve Command
Robins AFB, Georgia Supports the AF mission to defend the US through control and exploitation of air, space and cyberspace by supporting Global Engagement.
Air Mobility Command
Scott AFB, Illinois Provides rapid, global mobility... right effects, right place, right time
What principle of war is to never permit the enemy to acquire unexpected advantage?
Security
What is the function of the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force? (CMSAF)?
Serves as personal adviser to the Air Force Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Air Force on all issues regarding the enlisted force.
What principle of war calls for avoiding unnecessary complexity in organizing, preparing, planning, and conducting military operations?
Simplicity
This form of warfare typically involves force-on-force military operation
Traditional
What principle of war ensures concentration of effort for every objective under one responsible commander?
Unity of Command
Which of the following contains Clausewitz's three enduring truths describing the fundamental nature of war?
War is an instrument of policy, War is a complex and chaotic human endeavor, War is a clash of opposing wills
Air Force Material Command
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio Delivers war-winning technology, acquisition, test, sustainment and expeditionary capabilities to the warfighter.
What tenet of airpower is concentrating overwhelming power at the decisive time and place?
concentration
War is a combination of:
policy and violence.
