{"id":1464594,"date":"2022-05-05T07:59:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T11:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464594"},"modified":"2022-05-05T07:59:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T11:59:58","slug":"agile-combat-employment-how-the-u-s-air-force-would-fight-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/agile-combat-employment-how-the-u-s-air-force-would-fight-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile Combat Employment: How the U.S. Air Force Would Fight Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fagile-combat-employment-how-the-u-s-air-force-would-fight-russia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464594&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>Agile Combat Employment, also known as ACE, is one of the most important concepts in the U.S. Air Force today. <\/span><span>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/05\/tb2-black-sea\/\">Russian invasion<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/05\/putins-ukraine-nightmare-is-real-russia-cant-keep-taking-heavy-losses\/\">Ukraine<\/a> has shown how important the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/for-nato-pilots-trained-to-fly-migs-learning-to-fly-the-f-35-is-far-too-much-to-grasp-former-f-35-test-pilot-says\/ar-AAWAC2B\"><span>Agile Combat Employment<\/span><\/a><span> concept is, particularly in joint environments in which U.S. aircraft could be operating alongside <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/complicated-combat-future-us-air-force-121226\"><span>NATO allies<\/span><\/a><span> and partners that use different platforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Using ACE to Ace In War\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The Agile Combat Employment concept requires a squadron or flight to quickly mobilize and deploy its aircraft across an area of operations on very short notice. That deployment could place in response to credible intelligence about imminent hostilities with an adversary or as an attempt to deter such hostilities from taking place through deterrence.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>In the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eucom.mil\/2022-posture-statement-to-congress\"><span>annual posture statement<\/span><\/a><span> to Congress, U.S. Air Force General Todd Wolters, the commanding officer of the U.S. European Command (EUCON) and the Supreme NATO commander, highlighted the importance of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcemag.com\/making-agile-combat-employment-real\/\"><span>Agile Combat Employment<\/span><\/a><span> concept.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThough <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/air-force-agile-combat-employment-means-new-tasks-for-airmen-2021-3?op=1\"><span>Agile Combat Employment<\/span><\/a><span>, we seek to enhance current posture, complicate adversary decision-making, and impose costs while assuring our NATO Allies. Agile operations, supported by Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control, and improved communications and domain awareness capabilities, will demonstrate a credible, networked combat deterrence from potential airfields across the continent. This expansion of European contingency air operation and deployable air bases enhances the survivability of our forces,\u201d General Wolters said.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>But the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/money.yahoo.com\/f-35-pilot-nato-could-172200905.html\"><span>Agile Combat Employment<\/span><\/a><span> concept has some great operational benefits too. By rapidly deploying and dispersing aircraft throughout an area of operations, the U.S. military increases their survivability and thus their effectiveness too. The war in Ukraine has shown that dispersed forces can survive even the most advanced barrage of ballistic and cruise missiles. In a war against China, for example, the U.S. military would need to use all the tricks in the playbook to counter the advanced<a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2020\/11\/chinas-df-21d-and-df-26b-anti-ship-missiles-hit-target-vessel-in-august\/\"> Chinese long-range fires capabilities<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re shortening the kill chain, talking to our partners, and getting after what interoperability can do in this theater. When we begin exercising these concepts as soon as possible, we\u2019re baking in capabilities with our Airmen, our allies, and our partners,\u201d General Jeff Harrigian, the commanding officer of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa, said in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eucom.mil\/pressrelease\/41999\/btf-bakes-ace-concepts-into-latest-round-of-integrations\"><span>press release<\/span><\/a><span> after a recent Agile Combat Employment exercise in Europe.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Agile Combat Employment\u00a0<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>In the 2021 National Defense Strategy, the Pentagon highlighted by name the need to develop and adopt a lethal, agile force posture that transcends services and can operate in all warfighting domains, including air, sea, and air.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>In short, the U.S. military must have the capability to rapidly deploy air, naval, and ground forces in an area of operations and conduct dispersed and sustained operations against a near-peer adversary, namely China and Russia (although there should be a review of Russia as a conventional near-peer adversary after the former\u2019s awful military performance in Ukraine).<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><span>1945\u2019s New Defense and National Security Columnist,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sofrep.com\/author\/stavros-atlamazoglou\/\"><i><span>Stavros Atlamazoglou<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>\u00a0is a seasoned defense journalist\u00a0specializing in\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/soldiers-one-militarys-most-dangerous-161118164.html\"><span>special operations<\/span><\/a><i><span>, a Hellenic Army veteran (national service with the 575th Marine Battalion and Army HQ), and a Johns Hopkins University graduate. His work has been featured in\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/delta-force-sas-hunted-iraqi-scud-missiles-during-gulf-war-2021-2\"><i><span>Business Insider<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandboxx.us\/blog\/author\/stavros\/\"><i><span>Sandboxx<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, and\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sofrep.com\/news\/exclusive-the-perilous-state-of-the-special-forces-combat-diver-capability\/\"><i><span>SOFREP<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agile Combat Employment, also known as ACE, is one of the most important concepts in the U.S. Air Force today. 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