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Pros And Cons Of Air Force

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POSITION PAPER
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SEPARATING THE AIR FORCE AND SPACE FORCE

1. The purpose of this position paper is to discuss whether or not the United States Air Force (USAF) should disband into separate Air and Space Forces. The benefits of the Air Force and Space Force operating together outweigh the benefits of mutually exclusive entities operating in their own arenas. This paper will first address the pros to preserving the combined forces of Air and Space; next it will focus on the cons of remaining one service and how separate services might be more beneficial to United States (US) defense. Finally, this paper will focus again on why remaining one force is the stronger decision for the ultimate security and defense of the US.

2. Currently, “the Air Force’s space budget is dedicated almost entirely to the maintenance and improvement of information systems as a means of increasing the effectiveness of existing forces here on Earth.”1 These existing systems are early warning, navigation, intelligence, weather, and communications to support land, sea, and air operations. Fundamentally, the tools placed in space support warfare on Earth preserving the advantage the US military has over the rest of the world in the spheres of land, sea, and air. Therefore, …show more content…

There exist some benefits to disbanding the Air and Space forces. “With its own budget, the space service will be able to concentrate on making sure that all the other services have access to the best space-based support possible.”2 A new Space Force would take control of space-based missile defense systems, missile warning and tracking, networks of information instantly transmitted to deflect the enemy, anti-satellite weapons, satellite defense weapons, and space-to-Earth weapons.3 This not only benefits the Air Force, but also the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps as well. In a time of joint warfare operations, it is highly probable that a separate force focused exclusively on space would be advantageous to the

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