Current Air Base Ground Defense Doctrine

<p>The United States Air Force has transitioned to a CONUS based expeditionary force to reduce PERSTEMPO and offer greater flexibility in force projection options. However with the end of the Cold War reductions to our forward-deployed forces and the emergence of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) threats the USAF is left with the problem of protecting the Aerospace Expeditionary Force (AEF) in a deployed environment. Air Base Ground Defense (ABGD) has always been a key mission for aerospace forces. Throughout the history of military aviation airfields and bases have been threatened with enemy attack in one form or another. USAF efforts to create a viable ABGD system have been a sporadic combination of episodic buildups and subsequent drawdowns of security force personnel and equipment. In essence the Air Force has struggled with the concept of how to defend it's air bases for decades from World War I to OPERATION ALLIED FORCE.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>