Describes and guides the proper use of airpower in military operations. - ANSWER-Air Force
Doctrine
Describes the proper employment of specific Air and Space Force assets, individually or in
concert with other assets to accomplish detailed objectives. - ANSWER-Tactical Doctrine
States the most fundamental and enduring beliefs that describe and guide the proper use,
presentation, and organization of forces in military action. - ANSWER-Basic Doctrine
Extended duration, large-scale operations that usually involve combat. - ANSWER-Major
Operations & Campaigns
Ongoing routine activities that establish, shape, maintain, and refine relations with other
nations, international organizations, and domestic civil authorities. - ANSWER-Military
Engagement
Prepared to defend the homeland, remain the preeminent military power in the world,
ensure the balances of power remain in our favor, and advance an international order that
is most conducive to our security and prosperity. - ANSWER-Department of Defense
Describes how the Joint Force will be postured and employed to achieve its competition and
wartime missions. - ANSWER-Global Operating Model
, Acknowledges an increasingly complex global security environment, characterized by overt
challenges to the free and open international order and the re-emergence of long-term,
strategic competition between nations. - ANSWER-National Defense Strategy
Preventing of the further spread and/or transfer of nuclear weapons and weapon
technologies. - ANSWER-Non-Proliferation
Consists of the people, organizations, processes, procedures, infrastructure, and systems
that are used to conduct, execute, and support Nuclear Deterrence Operations (NDO). -
ANSWER-Air Force Nuclear Enterprise
Prevention of action by the existence of a credible threat of unacceptable counteraction
and/or belief that the cost of action outweighs the perceived benefits. - ANSWER-
Deterrence
The total spectrum of procedures, facilities, equipment, and personnel employed to provide
the protection against loss of custody, theft, or diversion of a nuclear weapon system, the
protection against unauthorized access, and the protection against unauthorized actions,
vandalism, sabotage, and malevolent damage. - ANSWER-Security
The application of engineering and management principles, criteria, and techniques to
protect nuclear weapons against the risks and threats inherent in their environments within
the constraints of operational effectiveness, time, and cost throughout all phases of their
life cycle. - ANSWER-Safety
Requires the presence at all times of at least two persons, each certified under PRP,
knowledgeable in the task to be performed, familiar with applicable safety and security