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Contrary to initial expectations, the end of the Cold War has not
resulted in a spontaneous outbreak of international peace and
stability. While the nuclear threat has diminished, previously
suppressed ethnic and nationalistic rivalries have boiled over and
become additive to existing trouble spots in Korea and Southwest
Asia. In spite of these challenges, defense spending and military
forward presence have declined as the lack of a peer competitor has
deprived our national security strategy of a definable threat. The
Air Expeditionary Force (AEF) attempts to deal with the uncertainty
of the current volatile world by providing regional commanders in
chief with effects-based packages of airpower that can quickly
respond to US national security requirements. This employment
strategy attempts to balance international uncertainty with a
decreased forward presence and reduced force structure. Recently
the Air Force has also touted the AEF as a tool to manage an
operational tempo and deployment rate problem that is causing
retention difficulties. In his paper, Colonel Nowak, USAF, argues
that while the AEF is a step in the right direction, the focus
appears to be too narrow. Current Air Force AEF planning is
oriented toward a conventional force-on-force-style aggression like
those aggressions we have seen in Iraq and the former republics of
Yugoslavia. However, the most probably use of an AEF will be in a
noncombat role, supporting humanitarian or peacekeeping operations.
In these "nontraditional" types of AEFs, personnel and leadership
skills, as well as the force composition, will be markedly
different from a combat-style AEF. The study begins by reviewing
the international and domestic context that has caused the Air
Force to focus on expeditionary operations. It continues by
discussing the historical roots of the AEF and its current
employment philosophy. The study concludes by identifying courses
of action that should keep the AEF viable in an uncertain
international environment.
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