Achieving and Ensuring Air Dominance

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This research paper advocates and explains air dominance. Air dominance goesbeyond air superiority and supremacy in that it not only ensures that friendly aircraft canfly anywhere in enemy territory, but that they can also be effective at performing theirmission. Suppression of ground-to-air attacks, prevention of attacks on our airbases, andovercoming domestic attacks on procurement are all important in ensuring theeffectiveness, or dominance, of airpower. I chose this research topic because I had someexperience with air dominance as a F-15C Eagle pilot from the Summer of 1989 to theSummer of 1992. I actively participated in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Stormwith the 27th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing. I believe thisresearch has particular value to the reader in that it reiterates the value of air dominanceto the campaign planner, it reinforces that value through historical analysis, it closelyexamines the potential future threats (both foreign and domestic), then it proposes futurecourses of action. The goal is to ensure that the USAF's future air dominancerequirements are being adequately addressed and that tomorrow's war fighters willcontinue to benefit from air dominance.