03948cam a2200481 i 4500001001900000003000500019005001700024008004100041010001700082020002100099020003200120020002500152020003500177027001900212035002000231037002200251040001900273043001200292050002200304100003400326245010500360264004300465300002900508336002600537337002600563337002800589338003600617338002700653500003000680504005300710505047400763520180001237530005803037610003103095610004403126610003603170650004103206650004203247710006203289710002203351710003103373856006203404rnd000000000111652RAND20200811100801.0071022s2007    cau      b    000 0 eng d  a  2007044048  a0833042092 (pbk)  a083304432X (electronic bk.)  a9780833042095 (pbk.)  a9780833044327 (electronic bk.)  aRAND/MG-655-AF  a(Sirsi) a516023  c$22.00fpaperback  aCstmoRcCstmoR  an-us---00aUG633b.L258 20071 aLambeth, Benjamin S.eauthor.10aCombat pair :bthe evolution of Air Force-Navy integration in strike warfare /cBenjamin S. Lambeth. 1aSanta Monica, CA :bRAND Corp.,c2007.  axxii, 105 pages ;c23 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"RAND Project Air Force."  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 99-105).0 aIntroduction -- A Backdrop of Apartness -- The Watershed of Desert Storm -- Post-Gulf War Navy Adjustments to New Demands -- First Steps Toward Integrated Strike-Warfare Training -- Continued Sources of Navy-Air Force Friction -- A Convergence of Integration over Afghanistan -- Further Convergence in Operation Iraqi Freedom -- Emergent Trends in Air Force-Navy Integration -- A New Synergy of Land- and Sea-Based Strike Warfare -- Future Challenges and Opportunities.  aThis report documents the exceptional cross-service harmony that the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy have steadily developed in their conduct of integrated strike operations since the first Persian Gulf War in 1991. That close harmony contrasts sharply with the situation that prevailed throughout most of the Cold War, when the two services maintained separate and unique operating mindsets and lacked any significant interoperability features. The most influential factor accounting for this gradual trend toward integration was the nation's ten-year experience with Operations Northern and Southern Watch, in which both Air Force land-based fighters and Navy carrier-based fighters jointly enforced the United Nations-imposed no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq that were first put into effect after the conclusion of Operation Desert Storm. That steady-state aerial policing function proved to be a real-world operations laboratory for the two services, and it ended up being the main crucible in which their eventual merger of operational practices was forged. The results were finally showcased by the all but seamless Air Force and Navy performance in their joint conduct of integrated aerial strike operations in the largely air-centric war in Afghanistan in late 2001 and early 2002. They were further dramatized by the similarly near-seamless air-warfare performance of the two services during the three-week major combat phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom that ensued a year later. These real-world experiences suggest that the U.S. Air Force and U.S. naval aviation should now consider each other natural allies in the roles and resources arena, since they did not compete but rather mutually supported and reinforced one another in the achievement of joint strike-warfare goals.  aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.10aUnited States.bAir Force.10aUnited States.bMarine CorpsxAviation.10aUnited States.bNavyxAviation. 0aAir warfarezUnited StatesxHistory. 0aUnified operations (Military science)2 aProject Air Force (U.S.).bStrategy and Doctrine Program.2 aRand Corporation.1 aUnited States.bAir Force.41yOnline Accessuhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG655/