Air Force Strategic Plan, Volume 1. The Future Security Environment

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals New Strategic Plan Takes the ALS into the Future

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kirz ◽  
D. S. Chemla ◽  
B. Feinberg ◽  
Z. Hussain ◽  
G. F. Krebs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Plan ◽  
The Future

Military Force Planning and National Security

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mackubin T. Owens
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
National Security ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Military Policy ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Force Structure ◽  
The Future ◽  
Force Planning

One component of military policy in particular lies at the very crossroads of strategic planning and structural arenas of policy. This is force planning, the interactive, intertemporal art intended to ensure that deficiencies in today’s force structure are being corrected while preparing for a future that may resemble the present or differ from it in unexpected ways. While force planners must think about what the future security environment might look like, what technologies might be available, and how future forces might leverage these emerging technologies to meet the challenges of a future security environment, they must always be cognizant of domestic structural factors. This chapter argues that a force planner must always be guided by a coherent strategic logic. Structural factors can never be eliminated, but a strong strategic rationale can minimize them.

INTEGRATING CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES ‒ NECESSARY ACTION TO INCREASE EFFECTIVENESS OF MILITARY ACTIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-132
Author(s):  
Ionuţ CIORANU ◽  
Ion CHIORCEA
Keyword(s):  
Synergistic Action ◽  
Capability Development ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Efficient Integration ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Lost Time ◽  
Uncertain Future

In the increasingly uncertain future conditions, because the lost time cannot be recovered, the only one within reach remains the future. Thus, defence planning is about planning for an uncertain future, about reducing the level of uncertainty, or about increasing the level of tolerance for uncertainty. Therefore, we consider that it is time to move on to prospective planning, to the management components reprioritization, with an emphasis on foresight, especially as we observe the security environment new specifics, in order to choose, develop and maintain those capabilities to meet current and future challenges. In this article we will analyze all these aspects, in an attempt to highlight the fact that the efficient integration of those elements, which lead to obtaining and maintaining optimal capabilities, must represent a synergistic action in order to increase the effectiveness of military actions.

The future of African security

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Emerson ◽  
Hussein Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Security System ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Unstable States

Africa is a security environment fraught with many dangers, but one too that presents great opportunities for addressing the most pressing global—and not just African—challenges. With more than its share of fragile, unstable states, impoverished societies, and endemic conflict, the continent was once seen almost exclusively as an incubator of instability and insecurity; a venue for addressing rising challenges and an exporter of global security threats. But this is no longer the case. Africa, like everywhere else in the world, is becoming increasingly integrated into a globalized security system, whereby Africans are just as vulnerable to threats emanating from outside the continent as they are from home-grown ones. Thus, Africa—and what happens there—matters more than ever. Simply ignoring it and hoping for the best through a policy of containment and isolation is not a viable option in today’s globalized and interdependent world.

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