Reoptimization for Great Power Competition

GPC Key Decisions

USAF Case for Change

SecAF Memo

Air Force FAQ for Reoptimizing Great Power Competition

“We need these changes now; we are out of time to reoptimize our forces to meet the strategic challenges in a time of great power competition.”

~ Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall

The United States faces a time of consequence marked by significant shifts in the strategic environment. To remain ready, the U.S. Air Force must change.

In early 2024, the Department of the Air Force unveiled sweeping plans for reshaping, refocusing, and reoptimizing the Air Force and Space Force to ensure continued supremacy in their respective domains while better posturing the services to deter and, if necessary, prevail in an era of Great Power Competition. Through a series of 24 DAF-wide key decisions, four core areas which demand the Department’s attention will be addressed: Develop People, Generate Readiness, Project Power and Develop Capabilities.

Today, the Air Force once again finds itself at a critical juncture—an era of Great Power Competition marked by a new security environment, a rapidly evolving character of war, and a formidable competitor. This new era requires understanding its challenges and the attributes needed to succeed.

Embracing change is not a choice; it is a necessity. The Air Force must “reoptimize” into an enterprise prepared for high-end conflicts and long-term strategic competition.

Army Reserve Today - Episode 17

U.S. Army Reserve Command

Video by Calvin Reimold

Sept. 28, 2015 | 29:59

October 2015 episode of Army Reserve Today, the quarterly video news
magazine of the U. S. Army Reserve. Inside this episode.

. Helping at right here at home.Army Reserve medics provide for
communities in need.

. When disaster strikes...chemical company soldiers prepare for worst
case scenarios to provide their life saving skills when time matters most.

. Combat engineers from the Army Reserve and Army National Guard go
head to head competing during this summer's 'Best Sapper' competition at
Fort Chaffee, Ark.

. Army Reserve soldiers and units train alongside active duty units in
an effort to share knowledge in a unique training environment only found at
river assault events.

. GLOBAL MEDIC is the largest medical exercise of its kind, and Army
Reserve Soldiers worked alongside British Army Reservists in a joint
environment to ensure they are the best prepared when they deploy.

. Assaulting villages and staging rescue missions isn't exactly what
comes to mind when one thinks of paralegals, but that is just what these
Army Reserve legal specialists did this summer at Fort McCoy, Wis., for
their annual training. More