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Expeditionary Aerospace Force Summary

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ANATOMY OF A REFORM
The Expeditionary Aerospace Force

By
Lieutenant RPB Rajarathne ANATOMY OF A REFORM: THE EXPEDITIONARY AEROSPACE FORCE
BY RICHARD G DAVIS
PUBLISHED BY AIR FORCE HISTORY AND MUSEUMS PROGRAM, 2003

1. Dr.Richard G D avis is a member of a historical staff at the Army’s center of military History. He was previously Historian for the United Nation Command, Combined Forces Command and US Forces’ Korea Command. He received his BA in history from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, His MA in European history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel …show more content…

Richard Davis looks in to the background of earlier expeditions conducted by the Air Force, and what the chief of staff expectation to be the reformed attitude or mindset their airmen. The Expeditionary Aerospace Force is expectation to be a visceral change spanning the entire force not just the top end. while United States Air Force has deployed all over the world, it did so at great cost, at an extreme operations tempo and with increasing unrest form its members. Anatomy of a Reform provides a good explanation of the problems with dividing operations equipment and manning shortfalls, and the care of issues combined with fulfilling the United States Air Force’s national defense allegation. He correctly indicates that of all the issues combined with conducting these operations. The morale and attitude of our air men was both the thing that made it work and the element that would eventually cause operations to fail if not corrected and supported …show more content…

Davis lays down the Aerospace Expeditionary Force cycle and graphically demonstrates the process of planning and execution for each Aerospace Expeditionary Force. He does well in providing context for how the Aerospace Expeditionary Force will operate and the resultant dependable schedule that each airman can use when planning even the most day today activities. like leave or wedding. By implementing the Aerospace Expeditionary Force cycle United States Air Force gave 60 percent of its force the opportunity to know when they would be deployed and for how long. This was something the Air Force had been unable to do for more than ten

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