United States Strategic Command/Related Articles: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
John Leach (talk | contribs) m (Text replacement - "{{r|Nuclear weapon}}" to "") |
John Leach (talk | contribs) |
||
Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
{{TOC|right}} | {{TOC|right}} | ||
==Parent topics== | ==Parent topics== | ||
==Subtopics== | ==Subtopics== | ||
===Doctrine=== | ===Doctrine=== |
Revision as of 03:34, 25 March 2024
- See also changes related to United States Strategic Command, or pages that link to United States Strategic Command or to this page or whose text contains "United States Strategic Command".
Parent topics
Subtopics
Doctrine
- Deterrence [r]: A set of policies and actions that prevent an opponent from taking an undesired action [e]
- Strategic strike [r]: Use of kinetic (i.e., physically destructive) and nonkinetic (e.g., information operations deep into enemy territory, affecting military forces in the homeland, or population, industry, and infrastructure. [e]
- Single Integrated Operational Plan [r]: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the United States Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance [e]
- Countervalue [r]: A military targeting doctrine, first articulated in the context of nuclear warfare but not restricted to it, in which the attacker plans to attacks civilian populations, and to destroy the enemy industrial capability [e]
- Counterforce [r]: Military targeting doctrine, historically associated with nuclear warfare and now with precision-guided munitions. [e]
- Strategic bombing [r]: Strategic strike attacks against the homeland military forces, population and industry of a nation, conducted by manned bomber aircraft [e]
Organizations
- National Command Authority [r]: The combination of the U.S. President and Secretary of Defense, or their successors, who have the sole authority to authorize the use of nuclear weapons, or issue orders to Unified Combatant Commands [e]
- Eighth Air Force [r]: The organization currently "owning" the bombers, information operations, and most intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force; it conducted strategic bombing against Germany in the Second World War [e]
- Twentieth Air Force [r]: The organization responsible to Air Force Space Command for the readiness of U.S. land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, and to the United States Strategic Command for their operational use [e]
- Air Force Global Strike Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
Bases
- Barksdale Air Force Base [r]: United States Air Force base in Arkansas, having the headquarters of the Eighth Air Force, commanding strategic bombers, and one of the two B-52 bomber wings [e]
- Offutt Air Force Base [r]: United States Air Force base in Omaha, Nebraska, which is the home of United States Strategic Command and the 55th Wing of C3I-ISR aircraft [e]
- F. E. Warren Air Force Base [r]: A geographically immense United States Air Force base, spreading across Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming, containing the overall headquarters, Twentieth Air Force, of the operational land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles of the United States, as well as approximately one-third of the missiles [e]
- Minot Air Force Base [r]: Located in North Dakota, it is one of two United States Air Force bases with a B-52 bomber wing, and is administratively under the Eighth Air Force. It also hosts the 91st Space Wing of LGM-30 Minuteman long-range ballistic missiles [e]
- Whiteman Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
Commanders
- Lee Butler [r]: General, United States Air Force, who retired in 1994 as the first commander of United States Strategic Command and last commander of Strategic Air Command; now an advocate of arms control and nuclear disarmament [e]
- Kevin Chilton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Cartwright [r]: General, United States Marine Corps, who serves as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; former commander, United States Strategic Command [e]
- James O. Ellis [r]: (1947-) President and CEO, Institute of Nuclear Power Operations; member of the board, Lockheed Martin, Level 3 Communications, and Inmarsat; Admiral, United States Navy, Retired; former commander, United States Strategic Command; Military Senior Advisor Panel, Iraq Study Group [e]
- Eugene Habiger [r]: General, United States Air Force, retired; formerly headed United States Strategic Command; board of directors, Nuclear Threat Initiative [e]
Weapons
Combat aircraft
- B-2 Spirit (bomber) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- B-52 Superfortress (bomber) [r]: United States Air Force heavy bomber, first version flown in 1952, entered service in 1961, expected to stay operational until at least 2030 [e]
Missiles
- AGM-86 ALCM [r]: Add brief definition or description
- LGM-30 Minuteman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UGM-133 Trident D5 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Submarines
Precision-guided weapons=
Nuclear weapons
Intelligence
- RC-135 COBRA BALL [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RC-135 COMBAT SENT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RC-135 RIVET JOINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U-2 Dragon Lady [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MQ-4 Global Hawk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Defense Intelligence Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
Command and control
- Defense Information Systems Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- E-3 Sentry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- E-6 TACAMO [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Air Force Space Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Reconnaissance Office [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Security Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
}