"Air University is a warfighting institution. Its mission is to develop leaders and ideas that enable the Joint Force to compete, deter and, when required, fight and win...Seminars intentionally integrate representatives from across services, components and partner nations. The purpose is operational: strengthen cohesion before crisis demands it. Shared understanding built in the classroom accelerates coordination in the field, shortens integration timelines and reduces friction during joint operations." - Billy Blankenship, U.S. Air Force Civilian.
(U.S. Air Force video by Robert Dantzler.)
Air University’s Air Force Global College is using lessons from the 1972 Easter Offensive to sharpen how today’s leaders think about joint warfighting. In a recent distance learning seminar, faculty and students examined how integrated airpower — operating at the tactical, operational and strategic levels simultaneously — helped blunt a large-scale conventional invasion. The discussion reinforced enduring principles of unity of...
