Accession Number:

ADA561401

Title:

Airborne Joint Forcible Entry: Ensuring Options for U.S. Global Response

Descriptive Note:

Research paper

Corporate Author:

ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA

Personal Author(s):

• Lear, Kyle E.

Report Date:

2012-01-20

Pagination or Media Count:

44.0

Abstract:

After a decade of fighting counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Joint Force s capability to conduct Joint Forcible Entry has atrophied. Although the military skills to exercise this option are out of practice, Joint Forcible Entry provides the U.S. with an essential capacity to deter conflict, project power and defeat opponents. Armed with a proliferation of new technology brought about by globalization, hostile state and non-state actors are becoming increasingly capable of limiting U.S. access to the global commons and to their territories. If unchecked, these impending infringements on our nation s global freedom of movement will injure our national credibility, diminish our national power and threaten our national security. The U.S. must sustain a credible Airborne Joint Forcible Entry capacity as an option for the President. Airborne Joint Forcible Entry is a vital national capability that will dissuade our adversaries, reassure our allies and continue to assure U.S. global access and influence.

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES)
• *MILITARY OPERATIONS
• ACCESS
• AFGHANISTAN
• AIRBORNE
• CONFLICT
• COUNTERINSURGENCY
• GLOBAL
• IRAQ
• JOINT MILITARY ACTIVITIES
• MILITARY CAPABILITIES
• MILITARY PERSONNEL
• NATIONAL SECURITY
• RESPONSE
• SKILLS

Subject Categories:

• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE