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Air Sea Battle Concept a Month Away
DoD Buzz ^ | 11/4/2010 | John Reed

Posted on 11/05/2010 12:09:34 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld

U.S. Air Force and Navy officials are set to deliver the Air-Sea Battle concept to Pentagon leaders within a month, a senior Air Force official said today.

Representatives from both services have already briefed Defense Department brass on the topics to appear in the classified document meant to help the two services figure out how to defeat defenses aimed at holding U.S. ships and planes at bay, according to Lt. Gen. Philip Breedlove, the Air Force’s chief of operations, plans and requirements.

The plan “will be a tool for our president” and other leaders to use in case country must fight an enemy with advanced anti-access and area-deniability (A2AD) weapons and sensors, Breedlove said during a breakfast with reporters in Washington. “There are things our team has found that we can do better” against these threats as a team than as separate services, he added.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; airsea; departmentofdefense; dod; pentagon; usaf; usn; usnavy

1 posted on 11/05/2010 12:09:40 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

Rods From God would do a pretty good job of demolishing defenses keeping US planes and ships at bay. :P


2 posted on 11/05/2010 12:13:42 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

I agree


3 posted on 11/05/2010 12:16:40 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mole_Cricket_19


4 posted on 11/05/2010 12:16:47 AM PDT by hannibaal
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
The plan “will be a tool for our president” and other leaders to use...

The plan "will be for our tool president and other leaders to use...

Fixed it.

5 posted on 11/05/2010 1:35:12 AM PDT by Clink (Conservatives believe it when they see it. Liberals see it when they believe it.)
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
Hmm, we were doing this back in the 80s.

We even had a state-of-the-art wargames simulator:


6 posted on 11/05/2010 3:44:34 AM PDT by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
… to appear in the classified document …

I wonder how long before it’s on the internet or published by the Times.

7 posted on 11/05/2010 4:23:23 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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