Air Force Heritage and Values 2 Midterm

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Which form of warfare favors asymmetric approaches?

Irregular

What tenet of airpower ensures control by a single airmen who maintains the broad, strategic perspective necessary to balance and prioritize the use of a powerful, highly desired, yet limited force?

Centralized control + Decentralized execution

What are the four groups comprising of a typical Air Force Wing?

Maintenence, Mission Support, Medical and Operations groups

What tenet of airpower applies speed and range to allow the forces to visit and revisit wide ranges of targets nearly at will?

Persisatance

Two basic themes for war:

Policy and Violence

War is a combination of what two things?

Policy and Violence

This form of warfare typically involves force on force military operations

Traditional

What principle of war ensures concentration of effort for every objective under one responsible commander?

Unity of Command

What tenet of airpower is the ability to employ airpower effective at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war and provde a wide variety of tasks in concert with other joint force elements?

Versitility and Flexibility

Clausewitz three enduring truths:

1. A clash of opposing wills 2. An instrument of national Policy 3. A complex and chaotic human endeavor

Three enduring truths that describe the fundamental nature of war

1. A clash of opposing wills 2. An instrument of national Policy 3. A complex and chaotic human endeavor

What is not true about AF classes?

1. You must know all Air Force History 2. You must know and develop life saving skills 3. You will come to "attention" when any AF member enters the room

What percentage of class attendance must be met to be given a grade?

80%

Where can cadets find a listing of assignments and testing requirements?

AFROTC detachment syllabus

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

What tenet of airpower is concentrating overwhelming power at the decisive time and place>

Concentration

What is the function of the Secretary of the Air Force?

Conduct the administrative affairs of the Air Force, to include fiscal spending, production, procurement, and legal plans and programs

What principle of war is the judicious employment and distribution of forces?

Economy of Force

Air War Plans Division Plan #1 was best captured by

Establishing independent operating objectives for the Army Air Force

What tenet of airpower allows airpower to exploit mass and maneuver simultaneously?

Flexibility and Versitility

What three factors dominate war according to Clausewitz?

Friction,Fog and Chance

What best captures the tactical use of allied airpower in the pacific theatre?

Innovative techniques such as fragmantation bombs and parachute bombs used to indirect enemy positions and retake islands

This form of warfare focuses on affecting peoples behaviors and relationships.

Irregular

What is the function of the Air Force Chief of Staff?

Maintain responsibility for the effeciency and operational readiness of Air Force

What is the main function of the Air Force Chief of Staff?

Maintain responsibility for the effeciency and operational readiness of the Air Force

What principle of war places the enemy in a position of disadvantage through the flexible application of combat power in a multidimensional combat space?

Manuever

What principle of war is to concentrate the effects of combat power at the most advantageous place and time to achieve decisive results?

Mass

What principle of war is to direct military operations toward a defined and attainable objective that contributes to strategic, tactical and operational aims?

Objective

What principle of war aims to seize, retain and exploit the initiative?

Offensive

What is the USAF organizational structure from President to Flight level

President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Air Force, Chief of Staff of Air Force, National Guard Bureau, Majored Commands, Number Air Forces, Wings, Group Squadrons, Flights.

What tenet of airpower is establishing clear priorities for the use of air power?

Priority

What principle of war is to never permit the enemies to acquire unexpected advantages?

Security

What is the main function of the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force?

Serves as the personal adviser to the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Air Force on all issues regarding enlisted Air Force

What principle of war calls for avoiding unnecessary complexity in organizing preparing, planning, and conducting military operations?

Simplicity

What principle of war attacks the enemy at a time, place, or in a manner in which they are not prepared?

Surprise

What tenet of airpower is coordinated force across multiple domains that can produce effects exceeding the contributions of forces employed individually?

Synergistic effects

During WW2, many lessons were learned while in the skies over Europe regarding the use of airpower in strategic bombing campaigns. What best captures the learned lesson?

The POL industry and sources of electrical power proved to be impactful targets


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