 Editor in Chief Bill   | 21 Jan 2015 1:21 p.m. PST |
The Pentagon has dropped the controversial name Air Sea Battle for its concept to defeat modern anti-access weapons and folded the accompanying Air Sea Battle Office (ASBO) into the Department of Defense's Joint Staff, according to a Jan. 8, 2015 memo obtained by USNI News.The new Joint Concept for Access and Maneuver in the Global Commons (JAM-GC pronounced: Jam, Gee-Cee) will take the work done by the ASBO and fold them into a new revision of the original ASB concept due out by the end of the year, a Department of Defense official with knowledge of the change told USNI News on Tuesday. The Joint Staff J-7 directorate will "monitor and support" the JAM-GC , according to the memo signed by Pentagon Joint Staff director Air Force Lt. Gen. David Gold Fein… link |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 21 Jan 2015 1:33 p.m. PST |
I like the name change. I'm sure the think-tank folks really had to wrack their brains to come up with the new terminology. Global Commons? Classic. |
| zippyfusenet | 21 Jan 2015 2:14 p.m. PST |
We are the Village Green Preservation Society.
God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety! |
| Mako11 | 21 Jan 2015 2:36 p.m. PST |
Yep, been in meetings like that. "Wordsmithing", and all the dithering and arguing that goes along with that takes hours, and days. Man, we are so hosed…….. I'm reconsidering my strategic position. I mean, I can back the side with nukes, and a bully who isn't afraid to use them, OR, the side that wants to win through peace, and playing James Taylor songs to sooth the soul. Not much of a choice, when playing for global domination, is there? |
| Zargon | 21 Jan 2015 2:46 p.m. PST |
What's all this 'folding in' malarkey? Sounds like a cooking channel and if I had my way all those 'planning personal' would end up working on a cooking channel. Leave the planning to 2nd loots and the real implementation to senior NCOs I say :) (might even win a war or two then) |
| Deadone | 21 Jan 2015 3:12 p.m. PST |
Reminds me of when my state's new education curriculum failed so they changed the name and called it a new curriculum even though the curriculum stayed roughly the same. Nearly 10 years later and we're still struggling with basic literacy and numeracy (but then so is the whole country – functional illiteracy in Australia is at least 33% and possibly up to 50% of the population).
In any case Air Sea Battle was never anything more than a concept. It lacked strategy and related tactics.
I suspect what's happened is reality bit – USA is back in Iraq and Europe has flared again. The US no longer has the capability to concentrate heavily in one area whilst maintain strong presence elsewhere. Essentially it's a win for the People's Republic of China. |
| Colonel Bogey | 21 Jan 2015 3:19 p.m. PST |
ASBO has a somewhat different connotation in the UK… |
| darthfozzywig | 21 Jan 2015 8:23 p.m. PST |
We refer to it as a "pivot south". |
| Lt Col Pedant | 22 Jan 2015 3:50 a.m. PST |
An Air-Sea Battle could be construed as a form of Anti-Social Behaviour… |
| Weasel | 23 Jan 2015 9:25 a.m. PST |
Something that has never been used in real life had its name changed by some dudes in suits.
TMP'ers panic.
Film at 11. |
