Synopsis "Air Force Global Strike Command: Master Plan 2014"
As long as nuclear weapons exist, the United States will maintain a safe, secure, and effective arsenal, both to deter potential adversaries and to assure US allies and other security partners.1 The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) provides clear guidance for Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) to provide forces for nuclear deterrence and global strike operations. This AFGSC Strategic Master Plan (SMP) details the future strategic environment, future challenges, command vision, values and priorities. Our vision and priorities underpin our values: responsibility, self-assessment, adherence, expertise, pride, respect, and safety. We will use these values to consolidate our recent gains across the nuclear enterprise and to complete the restoration of a culture that fully embraces the special trust and responsibility of nuclear weapons. As a warfighting Component MAJCOM (C-MAJCOM) to United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), AFGSC forces will execute assigned deterrence, assurance, and global strike missions. As a force provider, AFGSC will organize, train, and equip both conventional and nuclear combat forces for the President and combatant commanders (CCDRs). Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) forces are currently deployed in a nuclear deterrent role, and AFGSC bombers plan and execute deterrence and Global Power/Strike operations to provide USSTRATCOM with a visible deterrent capability. AFGSC will continue to support these forces and missions and prepare to provide additional combat power as required to address challenges and threats to the United States. The strategic environment continues to present a very dynamic and uncertain picture. The number of state and non-state actors that can produce strategic effects across the spectrum of conflict is growing in both quantity and complexity. As stated in the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance (DSG), the US Armed Forces must maintain a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent, deter and defeat aggression, project power despite anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) challenges, and counter weapons of mass destruction (WMD),2 while assuring our allies and partners of our commitment to our cooperative security agreements. In current and future conflicts, AFGSC forces are required to survive and operate in threat environments ranging from low threat/permissive environments to highly contested A2/AD environments. To overcome these obstacles and fulfill our vision, AFGSC will engage with higher headquarters, political leadership, and defense industry leaders to recapitalize, maintain, and modernize the nuclear and global strike enterprise.
