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Combat Air Power: Joint Assessment of Air Superiority Can Be Improved

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Feb. 26, 1997
Report No. NSIAD-97-77
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Summary:

One of the main objectives of U.S. combat air power is to achieve air superiority, which allows operations in the air and on land and sea without interference from an enemy's air forces, cruise missiles, and theater ballistic missiles. The Pentagon plans to spend more than $43 billion through 2001 to acquire weapons systems to equip and modernize forces for the air superiority missions. This unclassified version of a classified report (1) identifies the overlap among the military services' planned capabilities and (2) determines whether the joint warfighting assessment process relating to air superiority was useful in making program and budget decisions about these capabilities.

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