The Joint Forces Air Component Commander (JFACC) concept has been used by American and Allied forces long before it began being published as joint doctrine. In fact, as early as 1942 General Douglas MacArthur successfully employed the JFACC concept in the Southwest Pacific. (1) MacArthur set the broad strategic guidelines within which Gen. George C. Kenney, acting in what would now be termed the JFACC role, had free reign to employ airpower as he saw fit. As commander of air assets from the Army Air Corps, Navy, Marine and Australian air forces, Kenney exercised centralized control of his forces to focus the main airpower effort as required by the evolving situation. This concept of a single commander in charge of the 'AIR WAR' was further refined throughout WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Still, it wasn't until 1990, when Saddam Hussein's Iraqi war machine invaded Kuwait, that the now doctrinally based JFACC concept was tested in a major theater war by the United States. (2) Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm became a modern day 'test bed' for the JFACC concept. From the beginning, the war-fighting CinC gave full operational control of all air assets, including coalition air, to a single commander to prosecute a coherent air campaign. While there were some severe growing pains experienced during these brilliantly successful operations-such as what to do with the Marine's Air Combat Element; how to integrate Navy air, and how to incorporate coalition air forces, overall the JFACC concept proved sound and irrefutable. In the years since Desert Storm a huge effort has been made to accurately capture and incorporate the lessons learned in our current joint and service doctrines. The lessons of the Gulf are being further refined in the ongoing air operations to support UN sanctions against Iraq--Northern and Southern Watch--and in the recent NATO air operations during the Bosnian conflict.


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    Titel :

    Joint Doctrine in a Combined Operations World


    Beteiligte:
    L. Pitts (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2000


    Format / Umfang :

    14 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch