The posture triangle2013

U.S. Air Force (USAF) global posture⁰́₄its overseas forces, facilities, and arrangements with partner nations⁰́₄faces a variety of challenges: fiscal and political pressure to close overseas bases, an overseas political climate that is less conducive to permanently hosting large deployments of U.S. forces, and emerging military systems that pose a threat to forward bases. To inform USAF leaders as they adapt global posture to these new conditions, this report seeks to identify why the USAF needs a global posture, where it needs basing and access, the types of security partnerships that minimize peacetime access risk, and the amount of forward presence that the USAF requires. The authors describe a logical framework⁰́₄the posture triangle⁰́₄to link U.S. national security requirements to...