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AIR and SPACE STUDIES 400 National Security Affairs/Preparation for Active Duty AIR AND SPACE STUDIES 400 National Security Affairs/Preparation for Active Duty 2015-2016 Edition Jeanne M. Holm Center for Officer Accessions and Citizen Development Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Curriculum Division Dr. Charles J. Nath III, Director Mr. James C. Wiggins, Chief, Curriculum Development Branch Contributors Mr. Dave Lewis, Warfare Studies Captain Angela Newman, Warfare Studies Captain James Scott, Field Leadership Mr. James Damato, Field Leadership Mr. Chip Haughton, International Security Studies Mr. Doug McCarty, International Security Studies Major Mathew Carter, International Security Studies Mr. Samuel Greene, Leadership Studies Captain Stephanie Kaari, Leadership Studies Mr. Houston Markham, Leadership Studies Mr. Bob Arrington, Leadership Studies Captain Andrea Gallegos, Leadership Studies Captain Carissa Deeney, Leadership Studies Captain Carolyn Rocco, Leadership Studies Production Staff Ms. Nicole Griffin, Tech Publications Specialist, Cover Design Mr. Kendall Flournoy, Tech Publications Specialist Ms. Marche Hinson, Textbook Distribution This text was developed under the guidance of Dr. Charles J. Nath III, Director, Curriculum Division, Holm Center, Maxwell AFB, AL., 36112-6106. This publication has been reviewed and approved by competent personnel of the preparing command in accordance with current directives on doctrine, policy, essentiality, propriety, and quality. The views and opinions expressed or implied in this publication do not carry the official sanction of the Air Education and Training Command or the Department of the Air Force. Copyrighted materials used in this text have been reproduced by special arrangement with the original publishers and/or authors. Such material is fully protected by the copyright laws of the United States, and may not be further reproduced in whole or in part without the expressed permission of the copyright owner. Unless otherwise credited, photos and images in this text are provided courtesy of U.S. Air Force, U.S. Government, or other public domain free-use websites. This book is used solely for U.S. Air Force academic purposes and is provided to all registered students free of charge. II AIR AND SPACE STUDIES 400 Table of Contents LESSON TITLE PAGE Lesson 1 Introduction to AS400 5 Lesson 2 The US Constitution 6 Lesson 3 Roles of the President, the Executive Branch, Congress, and Civilian Control of the Military 29 Lesson 4 Terrorism 46 Lesson 5 The Need for Cross-Cultural Competence 61 Lesson 6 Relating and Communicating Cross-Culturally 66 Lesson 7 Cultural Visual Expeditionary Skills Training 82 Lesson 8 Setting the World Stage 86 Lesson 9 USCENTCOM Area of Responsibility 105 Lesson 10 US Policy 112 Lesson 11 Making Strategy 129 Lesson 12 Principles of War and Tenets of Airpower 141 Lesson 13 The Department of Defense 143 Lesson 14 Citizen Airmen: The Total Force 157 Lesson 15 Air Force Functions 165 Lesson 16 Air and Space System Capabilities 167 Lesson 17 Force Packaging 182 Lesson 18 USAF Major Commands 186 Lesson 19 USPACOM Area of Responsibility 206 Lesson 20 Joint Operations 216 Lesson 21 Department of the Army 223 Lesson 22 Department of the Navy 234 Lesson 23 US Marine Corps 244 Lesson 24 The US Coast Guard 259 Lesson 25 USAFRICOM Area of Responsibility 266 Lesson 26 The Inspector General System 278 Lesson 27 Substance Abuse Control Program 287 Lesson 28 Sexual Harassment Awareness 307 Table of Contents III AIR AND SPACE STUDIES 400 Table of Contents LESSON TITLE PAGE Lesson 29 Suicide Prevention 317 Lesson 30 Law of Armed Conflict 318 Lesson 31 Uniform Code of Military Justice 332 Lesson 32 Military Justice 352 Lesson 33 Military Justice Case Studies 378 Lesson 34 The Code of Conduct 387 Lesson 35 USEUCOM Area of Responsibility 401 Lesson 36 Civilian Personnel 415 Lesson 37 The Enlisted Force 426 Lesson 38 Bullet Statements 447 Lesson 39 Bullet Statement Practicum 453 Lesson 40 Airman Comprehensive Assessment Process 454 Lesson 41 Enlisted Evaluation System 467 Lesson 42 Officer Evaluation System 468 Lesson 43 Evaluation Concepts 484 Lesson 44 USSOUTHCOM Area of Responsibility 488 Lesson 45 Information Assurance, Computer Security, and Information Operations 497 Lesson 46 Risk Management 517 Lesson 47 Noncommissioned Officer Perspective 528 Lesson 48 Air and Space Expeditionary Force 529 Lesson 49 Defense Support of Civil Authorities 533 Lesson 50 Cyberspace 534 Lesson 51 Nuclear Operations 548 Lesson 52 USNORTHCOM Area of Responsibility 561 Lesson 53 Oath of Office 571 Lesson 54 Virtual Staff Ride: Battle of Roberts Ridge 589 Lesson 55 Ethical Decision-Making Case Studies 603 Lesson 56 Airmanship 604 IV Introduction to AS400 Reading Assignment: • No reading associated with this lesson. Affective Lesson Objective: • Respond to the importance of the AS400 material to active duty preparation. Affective Sample of Behavior: • Actively participate in classroom discussion. 5 Introduction to AS400 5 The US Constitution Cognitive Lesson Objective: • Know the key ideas and distinct features of the US Constitution and how it relates to servitude of the nation. Cognitive Samples of Behavior: • Define “servant” in terms of being a servant of the nation. • Describe the relationship between servitude, the Constitution, and our second Core Value of Service Before Self. • List the rights on which the Declaration of Independence is based. • Describe the purpose of each article of the Constitution. Affective Lesson Objective: • Value the importance of the US Constitution to members of the US Armed Forces. Affective Sample of Behavior: • Defend the importance of the US Constitution as officers. 6 “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.” ~James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 51 The Constitution is our founding document—the backbone of our nation. As an officer in our United States Air Force, you will take an oath to support and defend our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. All officers must have a familiarity with this document and its content—it is what our nation is founded on. DEFENDER OF THE CONSTITUTION AND SERVANT OF THE NATION Excerpted from the Armed Forces Officer By their oaths, members of the armed forces are defenders of the Constitution and servants of the nation. But theirs is a particular kind of Constitution and a unique kind of nation. The Constitution, with its Bill of Rights, is a compact of a self-governing people, providing for a framework of government by consent to complete work begun with an earlier statement of democratic principles, the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration’s assertion of unalienable rights established early on the spirit in which the rules of the Constitution would be administered: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. The Constitution made implicit the principle of military subordination to civil authority, in recognition of the ultimate source of political sovereignty asserted in the Declaration of Independence. At the same time, it established the spirit that would govern the discipline of the American armed forces. General Washington emphasized military subordination to civil authority in his scrupulous deference to the Continental Congress in his role as military commander. The Declaration of Independence articulated the political expectations 6 The US Constitution 7 of the Soldiers Washington sought to turn into a disciplined regular force to serve the revolutionary effort. Both democratic expectations are as valid today as they were at the beginning of our nation. In a famous military anecdote, Major General Friedrich Baron von Steuben, the Prussian drill master who transformed the rag-tag Continental army into an organized, disciplined fighting force at Valley Forge, captured an important trait of American Soldiers in a letter to an old European comrade: “In the first place, the genius of this nation is not in the least to be compared with that of Prussians, Austrians, and French. You say to your soldier, ‘Do this, and he doeth it’; but I am obliged to say, This is the reason why you ought to do this and that: and then he does it.” Like their revolutionary counterparts, today’s Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Coastguardsmen, and Airmen, must understand not only what they must do, but why they must do it. With this in mind, the rest of this chapter explores the concepts behind the phrase, “Defender of the Constitution and Servant of the Nation.” The concept of being a “servant” is uncomfortable to most Americans. The word conjures an image of forced obedience, of slavery, or of menial servitude in contrast to our shared belief in individual freedom. Yet, an officer makes a voluntary choice to serve the nation, to place the nation’s interests ahead of his or her personal desires. It is this voluntary commitment that forms the core of the oath of office, the solemn pledge to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. American officers embrace the concept of “service before self.” Officers in the United States armed forces swear to uphold the ideals and obligations embedded in our nation’s Constitution, laws, and elected representatives. With the oath of office as an anchor, officers agree to serve the country by fulfilling their duties to the best of their ability and to be loyal, not only to military superiors and branch of service, but to constitutionally elected and empowered leaders and, by implication, to the citizens of our great country.
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