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31 Cards in this Set
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US Africa Command
Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany |
US military relations with 53 African countries,
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US European Command (USEUCOM)
Stuttgart, Germany |
US European Command‘s AOR covers almost one-fifth of the planet, including all of Europe, large portions of Asia, parts of the Middle East and the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. The command is responsible for US military relations with NATO and 51 countries on two continents with a total population of close to a billion people.
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US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)
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Headquarters: Peterson AFB, Colorado
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US Pacific Command (USPACOM
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Headquarters: Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii
USPACOM protects and defends, in concert with other US Government agencies, the territory of the United States, its people, and its interests |
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US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM)28
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Headquarters: Miami, Florida
US Southern Command is responsible for providing contingency planning, operations, and security cooperation for Central and South America, the Caribbean (except US commonwealths, territories, and possessions), and Cuba, as well as for the force protection of US military resources at these locations. |
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US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)29
Headquarters: MacDill AFB, Florida |
The US Special Operations Command is the Unified Combatant Command charged with overseeing the various Special Operations Commands of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps of the United States Armed Forces.
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US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) 30
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Headquarters: Scott AFB, Illinois
As the single manager of America's global defense transportation system, USTRANSCOM is tasked with the coordination of people and transportation assets to allow the US to project and sustain forces, whenever, wherever, and for as long as they are needed. |
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US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM
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Headquarters: Offutt AFB, Nebraska
US Strategic Command is charged with space operations (such as military satellites), information operations (such as information warfare), missile defense, global command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), global strike and strategic deterrence (the United States nuclear arsenal), and combating weapons of mass destruction. |
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Air Combat Command (ACC)
Headquarters: Langley AFB, Virginia |
Air Combat Command organizes, trains, equips and deploys combat ready forces to support combatant commanders around the globe
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Air Education and Training Command (AETC)34
Headquarters: Randolph AFB, Texas |
develops America‘s Airmen for tomorrow. With a vision to deliver unrivaled air, space and cyberspace education and training, the command recruits Airmen and provides basic military training, initial and advanced technical training, flying training, medical training, space and missile training, cyber training, and professional military and degree-granting professional education
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Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC)35
Headquarters: Barksdale AFB, Louisiana |
AFGSC is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping the Air Force‘s three intercontinental ballistic missile wings, two B-52 Stratofortress wings and the only B-2 Spirit wing. The three weapons systems make up two-thirds of the nation‘s strategic nuclear triad by providing the land-based and airborne nuclear deterrent forces
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Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)36
Headquarters: Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio |
delivers war-winning technology, acquisition support, sustainment, and expeditionary capabilities to the warfighter.
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Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC)37
Headquarters: Robins AFB, Georgia |
Air Force Reserve Command provides personnel to augment the active duty community to carry out the warfighting mission with approximately 14% of the total force while spanning a wide variety of missions such as: space, flight testing, special operations, aerial port operations, civil engineering, security forces, intelligence, military training, communications, mobility support, transportation, and services.
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Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)
Headquarters: Peterson AFB, Colorado |
Air Force Space Command is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping mission-ready space and cyberspace forces and capabilities for North American Aerospace Defense Command, US Strategic Command, and other combatant commands world-wide.
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Air Mobility Command (AMC)
Headquarters: Scott AFB, Illinois |
Air Mobility Command provides airlift and aerial refueling for all of America‘s armed forces. They also provide aeromedical evacuation and Global Reach Laydown (GRL). GRL strategy uses resources from various organizations and brings them together to form those deployed organizations required to achieve the specific objectives of any particular mobility operation. These resources are also used to expand already existing AMC presence or establish AMC presence and infrastructure where none exists.
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Pacific Air Force (PACAF)
Headquarters: Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawai |
PACAF organizes, trains, equips, and maintains resources prepared to conduct a broad spectrum of air operations—from humanitarian relief to decisive combat employment—in DoD‘s largest area of responsibility.
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US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE)
Headquarters: Ramstein Air Base, Germany |
builds and maintains partnerships, promotes regional stability, provides forces for global operations, supports combatant command missions, sustains forward-based infrastructure, ensures strategic access to US forces, assure allies and deter aggression
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Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)
Headquarters: Hurlburt Field, Florida |
The command‘s mission areas include shaping and stability operations, battlefield air operations, information operations, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), specialized air and space mobility, precision engagement, and agile combat support.43
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The Department of the Army
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is the nation‘s principal land force and promotes national values and interests by conducting military engagement and security cooperation, deterring aggression and violence, and should deterrence fail, compelling enemy behavioral change or compliance. The Army includes land combat, service forces, aviation, water transport, and space and cyberspace forces.
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The Department of the Navy
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is composed of the Navy and the Marine Corps. They provide sea, land, air, space, and cyberspace forces, both combat and support, with the capabilities necessary to operate and support the other military services and joint forces The Navy and Marine Corps comprise the nation‘s principal maritime force.
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The Coast Guard
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During peacetime, the Coast Guard protects the maritime economy and environment, defends US maritime borders, and conducts search and rescue missions. They also provide port and waterway security, drug interdiction, migrant interdiction, marine safety, and other law enforcement missions.
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Traditional Warfare
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characterized as a confrontation between nation states or coalitions/alliances of nation states. v This confrontation typically involves force-on-force military operations where adversaries employ a variety of conventional military capabilities against each other in the air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace domains.
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Irregular Warfare
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defined as a violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant populations. Irregular warfare favors indirect and asymmetric approaches, though it may employ the full range of military and other capabilities in order to erode an adversary’s power, influence, and will. v
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Military Theory
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can be explained as the scientific, artistic, and philosophical idea or view relating to principles, methods, rules, and operations of war
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Air Force Doctrine
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describes and guides the proper use of airpower in military operations.
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Principles of Joint Operations
Unity of Command |
ensures concentration of effort for every objective under one responsible commander. This principle emphasizes that all efforts should be directed and coordinated toward a common objective.
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Principles of Joint Operations
Objective |
defined as directing military operations toward a defined and attainable objective that contributes to strategic, operational, and tactical aims. This principle holds that political and military goals should be complementary and clearly articulated.
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Principles of Joint Operations
Offensive |
means that we seize, retain, and exploit the initiative. The offensive aim is to act rather than react and to dictate the time, place, purpose, scope, intensity, and pace of operations. The principle of the offensive holds that offensive action or initiative provides the means for joint forces to dictate operations
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Principles of Joint Operations
Mass |
concentrate the effects of combat power at the most advantageous place and time to achieve decisive results.
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Principles of Joint Operations
Maneuver |
places the enemy in a position of disadvantage through the flexible application of combat power in a multidimensional combat space.
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Principles of Joint Operations
Economy of Force |
is the judicious employment and distribution of forces. Its purpose is to allocate minimum essential resources to secondary efforts. This principle calls for the rational use of force by selecting the best mix of air, space, and cyberspace capabilities.
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