BIBFRAME Work

Title

Air Force strategic planning

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Past, present, and future

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Project Air Force (U.S.) (issuing body)
• Cohen, Raphael S. (author)
• Rand Corporation (publisher)

Subject

• National security--United States--Forecasting (LCSH)
• United States. Air Force--Organization--Planning. (LCSH)
• Adaptive planning (Military science) (FAST)
• Military policy (FAST)
• United States. Air Force--Operational readiness--Planning. (LCSH)
• Strategic planning--United States (LCSH)
• United States (FAST)
• National security--Forecasting (FAST)
• United States--Military policy--21st century (LCSH)
• 2000-2099 (FAST)
• Strategic planning (FAST)
• Military doctrine (FAST)
• Military doctrine--United States (LCSH)
• United States Air Force (FAST)
• Adaptive planning (Military science)--United States (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 358.4/16840973 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: UG633 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography

Summary

"This report examines the history of strategic planning efforts in the U.S. Air Force and asks three basic questions. First, what does Air Force strategic planning actually accomplish? Second, what should it accomplish? Third, how can the process be modified to best fit that goal? The report finds that many of the most innovative Air Force strategy documents were produced outside the bureaucratic structure. Still, the Air Force has successfully used strategic planning to accomplish four basic tasks: allocate resources; structure the force; define and shape the service's mission and identity; and, perhaps most importantly, create a dialogue about the direction of the service. For the most part, successful strategic plans have achieved these results by applying five key lessons: understanding the policy environment; encouraging ideas from the bottom; starting the strategy from the top; keeping the message succinct, substantive, and sharp; and focusing on process as much as product"--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents

Strategic Planning and Its Discontents -- Defining Strategy and Measuring Its Effect -- Air Force Strategy from Its Formation Through the Cold War -- Air Force Strategy from 1990 to the Present -- Lessons for Air Force Strategic Planning -- Postscript: The Future of Air Force Strategy -- Appendix. Effect of Specific Air Force Strategic Documents.

Authorized Access Point

Cohen, Raphael S. Air Force strategic planning

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:18:30.045012+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24030617

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc