Air force

Air force

An branch of the military establishment that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army, navy or other branch. Typically, air forces are responsible for gaining control of the air, carrying out strategic and tactical bombing missions and providing support to surface forces.

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indirect support

Military; Air force

Denotes security assistance and other efforts to develop and sustain host-nation capabilities. It also establishes a distinction between security assistance and forms of support involving direct ...

influence operations

Military; Air force

Employment of capabilities to affect behaviors, protect operations, communicate commander’s intent, and project accurate information to achieve desired effects across the cognitive domain. These ...

information assurance (IA)

Military; Air force

Information operations that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. This includes ...

information attack

Military; Air force

An activity taken to manipulate or destroy an adversary’s information systems without visibly changing the physical entity within which it resides.

information dissemination management

Military; Air force

The subset of information management with a supporting infrastructure that addresses awareness, access, and delivery of information. The primary mission is to provide the right information to the ...

information operations (IO)

Military; Air force

The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security, in concert with specified ...

information superiority

Military; Air force

That degree of dominance in the information domain which permits the conduct of operations without effective opposition. The Air Force prefers to cast ‘superiority’ as a state of relative advantage, ...