Laird and Timperlake Briefing to AFA Pacific Forum November 22, 2013
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Rebuilding Military Power in the Pacific: Crafting a 21 st Century Strategy Shaping a Way Ahead Updated December 2, 2013
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In late November 2013, Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake discussed their new book (with Richard Weitz) on Rebuilding American Power in the Pacific: A 21st Century Strategy.
The F-35 strike fighter will be a lynchpin of security in the Asia-Pacific region in the coming years for the United States and its allies, said Robbin Laird, military and security analyst. "This is not your mother's jet," he told AFA's Pacific Air & Space Symposium in Los Angeles last month in emphasizing how "radically different" the F-35 will be. In addition to the F-35's sophisticated technology, it's also significant that regional allies are acquiring the jet at the same time as the United States and will be establishing operations hubs and training ranges, said Laird. "You will end up with more F-35s in the Pacific being allied than American," he said during his Nov. 22 presentation. The airplane's capabilities will help to usher in new concepts of operation built around robust, distributed assets, he said. "We usually think of technology as the driver . . . but in fact we are entering a decade where the CONOPs changes are as important as the technologies," he said. Appearing with Laird, Ed Timperlake, senior fellow with Technology Assessment and Security, said the F-35's sensors and ability to share data would give each pilot access to unprecedented levels of real-time information in the cockpit. By Michael C. Sirak http://www.airforcemag.com/DRArchive/Pages/2013/December%202013/December%2002%202013/Not-Your-Mother%27s-Jet.aspx For the audio of the presentation as delivered to the Pacific Forum see the following: http://www.afa.org/PacAirSpace/PASS2013Symposium/audiorecordings An interview with AFPAC commander Hawk Carlisle was generated during the time at the Pacific Forum of the American Air Force Association as well as an interview Col. James on the role of the USAF in the initial response to the Philippine’s relief effort.
Transcript of Laird and Timperlake Briefing to AFA Pacific Forum November 22, 2013
Rebuilding Military Power in the Pacific: Crafting a 21st Century Strategy
Shaping a Way AheadUpdated December 2, 2013
Shaping an Approach
• Build Upon the Central Impact of the “Re-Norming of Air Power” and re-shaping the con-ops or use of legacy systems;
• Understand the Impact of a “Few Great Captains”;• Focus on the Operational Geography of the
Pacific;• Deep Dive on the Impact of New Technologies on
Concepts of Operations;• Always Remember the Reactive Enemy.
Interactive Drivers of Change
Air Combat Cloud
Distributed Ops
Shaping an Attack and Defense Enterprise
F-35 Fleet
Weapons Revolution
Robotic Dynamics
C5ISR D Dynamics
Key Role for Partnership
Engagement and Execution
21st C
ty
Bom
ber
The P-8The F-35
Technology, Con-Ops and Coalition Airpower
Shaping an Approach (2)
• With Regard to the Past Decade of War, Harvest the Best, and Leave the Rest;
• Shape an Understanding of the Crises and Challenges Ahead which are Likely to Reshape Military Operations;
• Focus on the Shifting Relationship among the US, Allies and Adversaries;
• Understand the Impact of the F-35 fleet, global manufacturing and sustainment system on global coalition operations;
• If you do not have a Military Strategy to Deal with the PRC, You Simply do not have a Grand Strategy to deal with the PRC.
Shaping a 21st Century Pacific StrategyThe Strategic Setting
Managing the Dynamics of the Chinese Colossus
Deterrence in a Second Nuclear Age
The Arctic Opening and Russia as a Maritime Power and Canada on the Front Line of Defense
Synergy Between Security and Defense: Securing the Conveyer Belt of Goods and Services by Sea with SLOC Defense
Key Forces
TokyoShanghai
639 mi
3,895 mi
3,686 mi
2,809 mi
SINGAPORE
GUAM
Hawaiian Islands (USA)
JAPANSOUTHKOREA
AUSTRALIA
1,630 mi
2,353 mi
4,099 mi
Strategic Geogrpahy
3,895 mi
3,686 mi
2,809 mi
GUAM
Hawaiian Islands (USA)
SOUTHKOREA
AUSTRALIA
1,630 mi
2,353 mi
4,099 mi
Pacific Dynamics: The PRC ADIZ
SINGAPORE
639 mi
East China Sea Air Defence Identification Zone
China’s Territorial
Waters
Japan Air Defence Identification ZoneJAPAN
Shaping a 21st Century Force
• Distributed;• Presence; Reachback; Honeycomb Enabled;• Allies are Always Forward Deployed;• Shaping a 21st Century Version of the Big Blue Blanket for
the U.S. Joint Force;– Allied and Joint Fleet of F-35s as a key piece of the transition;– F-35s understood as stealth-enabled distributed fleet of combat
systems honeycombing the battlespace;• Leveraging Coalition Investments to Craft More Effective
Pacific Defense Capabilities;• Rethink Basing Strategies.
F-35 as Allied Pacific Lynchpin
Approximately 25 ThousandMiles of Perimeter Coverage
JapanSingaporeSouth Korea
HawaiiGuamAlaska
AustraliaCanada
Hubs andTraining Ranges Hubs Pacific Dynamic Distances Covered
Some Key Elements of the Way Ahead
• The F-35 School Houses as Drivers for Change (Eglin, Luke, Yuma, Beaufort etc.);
• The Salience of the S Cubed Dynamic to Con-Ops Innovations: – Sensors, Combined with Stealth Combined with
Speed can provide a new Paradigm for Shaping the Pacific Force Necessary for the U.S. in 21st Century Ops.
• Meeting the Challenge of the Second Nuclear Age
The Way Ahead
• This decade of technological development, con-ops evolution and partnership engagements and re-set of airpower lays the foundation for the next – And the determination of the role and impacts of new
platforms.• Three Key Cases in Point:
– The USS Ford and the Airwing After Next;– The Impact of the USS America and the Littoral
Engagement Fleet;– The Bomber and the Role of Long Range Strike.
