fighting back in the pacific
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Mee#ng Challenges of 2nd Nuclear Age Technology, Training and Tac#cs;
Figh#ng Back in the Pacific Ed Timperlake
Editor, Second Line of Defense Forum NDU/GAO-‐DCM Briefing: June 23, 2015
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GO, the Asian Game • “If you have lost all four corners then you have lost”
• “If you have secured all four corners then you have lost”
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Lessons from Cold War and Current Engagements
• Harvest the Best / Leave the Rest • No PlaWorm Fights Alone – Wynne Doctrine -‐ “If in fair fight, someone failed in planning”
• All military technology is rela%ve against a reac%ve enemy.
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Lesson: “Tron war” increasingly important
• WWII “Big Blue Blanket” now “Big Blue Tron & Sensor/Shooter Blanket”
• UAVs not the future of air power, but part – Need more realis^c opera^onal proof of concept tes^ng—UAV Vs kine^c killers, “tron” warriors; EW, EMP, Cyber AHacks • All data-‐linked in space
– MUST BE HIGHEST PRIORITY • Given PLA UAV Goal: 40,000+
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Coming S3 revolu#on: Sensors-‐Stealth-‐Speed
• F-‐35 will drama^cally change con-‐ops – FusiOn Cockpit enhances the “Decide Act” part of the pilot’s OODA loop, especially with shared mission data
• Ac^ve/Passive sensing a major boost to opera^onal combat mission planning
• Tac^cal Aircraf with Strategic Capabili^es -‐-‐ beyond just Block 4 “Nuke Mission”
• Land, sea ADA: much bigger role
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Training Ranges, Exercises (Red Flag) give US, Allies 10-‐year(?) lead on all adversaries
• USMC –YUMA • F-‐35 is really an F/A/E-‐ 35 – In a ground aHack mission the cockpit display gave the pilot a constant read-‐out of AA and GA threats – “EW was but a buHon away”
• F-‐35B with MV-‐22 to change USMC ability to insert and withdraw forces globally.
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Training Range Advantage, USAF-‐Nellis
• Mission Data set is cri^cal and USAF knows it • Just one F-‐35 captures “signature” of TF-‐50, J-‐20, J-‐31 – They become 4th Gen—because en^re Global Enterprise has “mission data file”
• Red Flag can eventually mix and match friendlies and aggressor threats playing off F-‐22/F-‐35 and Legacy aircraf.
• Russia, PLAAF can’t do this – No stealth aircraf with a 360 FusiOn Cockpit.
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Training Range Advantage, USN-‐Fallon
• Live Virtual Construc^ve Range allows complexi^es of a modern baHlefield, both inclusive and wide-‐ranging.
• The USS Gerald Ford will drama^cally change C2 for US and Allies – 17 spaces for “cyber” configura^on and reconfigura^on as tac^cal situa^on develops.
• Reach not Range: Aegis and SSG(N) working together
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Regional Rethinking • New Chief, Royal Australian Air Force, now highlights island environment for Aussie forces.
• “We want to have fresh looks at how (our Air Force) might operate in an island environment as vast as Australia and deliver the kind of military tasks that these crews will face and the Government expects.”
-‐-‐May 20, 2015.
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Essen#al for Combat Success • For all ranks: Training, Tac#cs and Technology • Plus the fourth war-‐winning pillar: transparent Cons#tu#onal Accountability-‐-‐-‐Execu^ve Department ac^ons (including LE), Legisla^ve Oversight and a 1st Amendment-‐Free Press.
• Na^onal Civilian Command Authority matches strategic requirements with resources.
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More
• H. REPT. 105-‐851 -‐ Report Of The Select Commi9ee On U.S. Na%onal Security And Military/Commercial Concerns With The People's Republic Of China
• hHp://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-‐CRPT-‐105hrpt851/content-‐
detail.html • Robbin Laird, Ed Timperlake, and Richard Weitz, Rebuilding
American Military Power in the Pacific: A 21st Century Strategy (Praeger Press)
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