摘要: |
The new era of contested logistics offers the Department of Defense (DOD) an opportunity to reexamine its civilian airlift augmentation, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF). Despite its reliable performance in the past, there are stark and compelling indications that the CRAF is severely limited in the risk environment of Great Power Competition. Accordingly, DOD and industry should explore new concepts to mitigate the inherent risk of pure commercial airlift operating in non-permissive environments. This article suggests that the CRAF must develop a limited, niche capability to integrate aircrew, aircraft, and command & control (C2) into a "hybrid-CRAF" in order to not only build resilience during conflict but also to respond to rapidly deteriorating situations such as those we recently witnessed in Kabul, Afghanistan. |