Joint Forces
A descriptive term of a party acknowledged as potentially hostile to a friendly party or an engagement when military force is required if other Instruments of Power are unable to influence a deteriorating or hostile situation.
What is Adversarial?
This provides situational awareness of the battlespace, allowing decision space for command elements, and plays a crucial role in providing a holistic picture and developing a common operational graphic.
What is Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)?
This Instrument of National Power is the principal instrument for engagement with other states and foreign groups to advance U.S. values, interests, and objectives and to solicit foreign support for U.S. military operations.
What is Diplomacy?
This is a guide that explains the Joint Force and is commonly referred to as "The Purple Book".
What is The Joint Team?
A descriptive term of how our operational Airman accomplish missions that are not war but responses to a crisis or contingency.
What is non-Adversarial?
This is, essentially, control of the air domain which is crucial to the success of modern and emergent warfare.
What is Air Superiority?
This Instrument of National Power involved every DoD action that is planned or executed, every word that is written or spoken, and every image that is displayed or relayed that communicates the intent of DoD and, by extension, the U.S. government, to achieve strategic effects.
What is Information?
This Instrument of National Power is enforced via government agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and host-nation partners. This enables the U.S. Government to secure the homeland, detain criminals, and assist mission partners with security needs.
What is Law Enforcement?
...are the employment and ordered arrangement of forces in relation to each other. These can be the act of organizing and employing fighting forces on or near the battlefield with the intent of achieving a desired outcome.
What are Tactical Actions?
This involves flying sorties, hitting/destroying/damaging intended targets, and precision bombing when diplomatic efforts are unsuccessful.
What is Global Strike?
This Instrument of National Power is employed by the U.S. at home and abroad, in support of its national security goals. The activities also include capacity and capability building of partner militaries and humanitarian aid and assistance operations.
What is Military?
This Instrument of National Power is used when the U.S. Government utilizes an array of resources to deny access to specified individuals or groups, including states and non-state actors, from formal or informal financial systems, networks, or sources of funding.
What is Financial?
...is a cooperative concept which refers to coordination and communication amongst United States Government (USG) agencies toward the same common goals for success.
What is Unity of Effort?
Projecting American power quickly to anywhere on the face of the earth because of the Air Force’s capability.
What is Rapid Global Mobility?
This Instrument of National Power includes free access to global markets and resources that are fundamental to general welfare, the enabler of a strong national defense.
What is Economic?
This Instrument of National Power consists of data collected by various organizations through a variety of mediums.
What is Intelligence?
1. Defending the homeland, paced to the growing multi-domain threat posed by the PRC
2. Deterring strategic attacks against the United States, Allies, and partners
3. Deterring aggression, while being prepared to prevail in conflict when necessary, prioritizing the PRC challenge in the Indo-Pacific, then the Russia challenge in Europe
4. Building a resilient Joint Force and defense ecosystem.
What are the 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) priorities?
This is a vital core function where Airmen employ the Air Force’s other four interdependent and enduring core missions through robust, adaptable, and survivable systems.
These ensure U.S. investment in critical relationships with like-minded foreign allies and partners and is crucial to preventing aggression of bad actors that threaten the United States and its partners. Each of them works most effectively when it is supported by and operates harmoniously with the other elements.
What are the Instruments of National Power (DIME-FIL)?
U.S. Presidents emphasize broad objectives, in this document, to address enduring and emerging threats that endanger these interests.
What is the National Security Strategy (NSS)?