In this essay, you will apply your understanding of concepts presented in the prerequisite courses – Air and Space Missions, Air and Space in Joint Operations, and Joint Fundamentals – to a contemporary great power challenge. It is important that you carefully consider and fully address the following prompt based on logic and reasoning and your understanding of concepts presented in this course series.
Prompt: COMUSINDOPACOM, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2022, described numerous “key adversarial challenges” to INDOPACOM and US interests. While there are many viewpoints from which these challenges can be explored, one important facet includes considering them from a linked Joint Function and Air Force Core Mission perspective.
Select one of the five essay options below and explain how the Joint Function and Air Force Core Mission Area contribute to overcoming the associated challenge for INDOPACOM. To learn more about the challenge for the essay option you selected, refer to the COMUSINDOPACOM’s senate testimony (2022)
. Your analysis should include current conditions and the likely implications should conflict erupt. senate testimony (2022)