A STRUCTURAL AND OPERATIONAL FUTURE FOR GLOBAL AIRLIFT

The strategic, organizational, and operational variables of airlift ar e too complicated ever to allow a confident determination of how much is enough. Military planners can reduce the uncertainties caused by th e shortfall between requirements and reality by planning within its li mitations, but only as a compromise from the operational ideal. The ac tive and reserve military elements of the global airlift fleet must be equipped and sized to service the military core of whatever wartime r equirements are adopted as the planning standard.