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Military Operations Against Terrorist Groups Abroad: Implications for the United States Air Force

by David A. Ochmanek

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The imperative to monitor, suppress, attack, and ultimately eradicate international terrorist groups seeking to strike the United States, its citizens, its interests, and its allies is prompting significant changes in the demands placed on the armed forces of the United States. U.S. forces will often be called upon to assist foreign governments that wish to eradicate terrorist groups on their territory but lack the capabilities to do so on their own. In such cases, U.S. forces can strengthen the capabilities and will of host-government forces by providing training and equipment, disrupt terrorist activities, find and capture or kill terrorists, help to alienate terrorists from the populace, gather intelligence about terrorist networks and activities around the world, and protect friendly forces and bases. In effective counterterrorist activitiesThe imperative to monitor, suppress, attack, and ultimately eradicate international terrorist groups seeking to strike the United States, its citizens, its interests, and its allies is prompting significant changes in the demands placed on the armed forces of the United States. U.S. forces will often be called upon to assist foreign governments that wish to eradicate terrorist groups on their territory but lack the capabilities to do so on their own. In such cases, U.S. forces can strengthen the capabilities and will of host-government forces by providing training and equipment, disrupt terrorist activities, find and capture or kill terrorists, help to alienate terrorists from the populace, gather intelligence about terrorist networks and activities around the world, and protect friendly forces and bases. In effective counterterrorist activitie

Table of Contents

  • Chapter One

    Introduction

  • Chapter Two

    A "Generic" Operational Strategy: A Template for Planning

  • Chapter Three

    Toward New Concepts for Locating and Attacking Terrorists and Related Targets

  • Chapter Four

    The New "Steady State": Implications for Force Planning

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