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  1. Military Airlift | RAND

    Aug 20, 2021 · Strategic Airlift in Africa: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE) and Member Nations The Movement Coordination Centre …

  2. Reducing Long-Term Costs While Preserving a Robust Strategic Airlift ...

    Jan 31, 2013 · The current strategic airlift fleet will be reaching the end of its service life in the next few decades, which has raised concerns about the cost and possible budget spike that would result from …

  3. Project AIR FORCE Analysis of the Air War in the Gulf

    The 1990 airlift during Operation Desert Shield moved ten times the daily ton-miles of the Berlin Airlift. In the main, this airlift operation was successful, but it did not attain expected performance. Operations …

  4. Intratheater Airlift Functional Area Analysis (FAA) | RAND

    Feb 24, 2011 · This functional area analysis lays out the tasks, conditions, and standards for the intratheater airlift fleet, taken from high-level guidance, various operational concepts, and recent …

  5. The challenges and opportunities of strategic airlift in Africa

    Jul 22, 2021 · A complex mix of global and geographically specific challenges inhibit the coordination and optimisation for airlift into the African theatre. Researchers explored the potential use of other …

  6. Strategic Airlift in Africa: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities ...

    Jul 22, 2021 · Strategic airlift assets are overstretched and in short supply globally. Against this backdrop, RAND Europe was commissioned by the MCCE to carry out a scoping study into the …

  7. Enhanced Army Airborne Forces: A New Joint Operational Capability

    Jan 23, 2015 · RAND examined options to increase the mobility, protection, and firepower of U.S. Army airborne forces, given likely future missions and threats, and identified a concept for enhancing …

  8. Understanding Airfield Capacity for Airlift Operations | RAND

    This report describes follow-on work to investigate how differing levels and distributions of airfield resources, over a set of airfields, can affect airlift throughput.

  9. From these preposi-tion sites, the choice of airlift or sealift depends on the scenario. • In general, deep interior deployments favor airlift; littoral scenar-ios favor sealift. Particular cases may present neither …

  10. A League of Airmen: U.S. Air Power in the Gulf War | RAND

    This research effort covered many different aspects of operations during the Gulf War, including strategic airlift, munitions and logistics support, command and control, intelligence and bomb …