Full Circle? The Transformation of Dedicated Adversary Air Training in the USAF

<p>This study analyzes the characteristics of dedicated adversary air training in past current and future U.S. Air Force operations. The author provides the background and history of such training within the USAF then surveys the current program and its capability to provide such training with respect to aircrew readiness and likely future operations of air expeditionary force employment. The study then compares contemporary operational and threat environments with those of the previous two decades in order to analyze the need for dedicated adversary air training. Future adversary air training alternatives are then proposed and analyzed using a framework of threat replication fidelity breadth of coverage and affordability. Finally a path is offered for transition to the recommended capability.</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><br>