1、 1667 K Street,NW,Suite 900,Washington,DC 20006 Tel.202-331-7990 www.CSBAonline.org Fax.202-331-8019 STATEMENT BEFORE THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES SUBCOMMITTEE ON SEAPOWER AND PROJECTION FORCES ON THE FUTURE OF AIR FORCE LONG-RANGE STRIKE September 9,2015 Statement by Mark Gunzinger Senior Fellow,Center
2、 for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments Chairman Forbes,Ranking Member Courtney,and Members of the Sub-Committee,thank you for the opportunity to present a few thoughts on the future of Air Force long-range strike.In my testimony,I will suggest a framework for thinking about future long-range strik
3、e operational concepts and capability priorities.This framework focuses on two competitions between the U.S.military and its potential adversaries.The first is the“hiders versus finders”competition,which I will use to describe the evolution of capabilities that enable aircraft to“hide”as they penetr
4、ate contested areas and the development of defensive systems to“find”penetrating aircraft.1 The second is the precision strike“salvo competition”which occurs between enemies that are each prepared to conduct high-volume offensive strikes as well as defend against their opponents precision strikes.Si
