The Current and Future Roles, Missions, and Capabilities of U.S. Military Air Power: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Airland of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, April 30, 2009 |
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ability adversaries aerial refueling Afghanistan Air Combat Command air defenses air dominance Air Force air power air superiority airlift airplanes airpower analysis assistant to Senator aviation forces BILL NELSON BOLKCOM budget Chairman challenge CLAIRE MCCASKILL Combat Command Congress contingencies conventional counterinsurgency decision defended airspace DOD's F-4 Phantom II fight fighter follow-on forward future global going ground forces HAWLEY insurgents Iraq irregular warfare JDAM JOHN THUNE JSTARS look LRSS major MARK BEGICH military aviation missile missions munitions next-generation bomber non-state actors nuclear operations percent platforms questions radars rebalancing refueling requirements risk role Russian SAXBY CHAMBLISS scenarios Secretary Gates Secretary of Defense Senator BEGICH Senator BURRIS Senator CHAMBLISS Senator LIEBERMAN Senator THUNE short-range state-on-state conflict strategic subcommittee surveillance tanker terrorists Thank threats tion U.S. Air U.S. forces U.S. military UAVs unmanned aerial unmanned aerial vehicles WATTS weapon systems