Combat Air Power

Download or read book Combat Air Power written by Robert D. Murphy and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DoD plans to spend over $43 billion from FY 1996-2001 to acquire weapon systems to equip & modernize forces for the air superiority missions. This report evaluates air superiority missions to identify the overlap among the military services' planned capabilities & to determine whether the joint warfighting assessment process relating to air superiority was useful in making program & budget decisions about these programs. Identifies several concerns that should be addressed: joint warfighting assessment needs to cover a longer period, include cost-effectiveness analyses of alternative means to achieve U.S. objectives, & identify overlap. Charts & tables.