Publisher's Synopsis
The Air Force's current doctrinal maxims of centralized control and decentralized execution have the potential to produce overcentralized planning at the theater airoperations center (AOC); the result of this tendency is a cumbersome air taskingorder (ATO) and a campaign vulnerable to lost communications, informationoverload, and decapitation. One cure for such problem is the decentralization oftactical planning through the use of mission-type orders at the wing or air task-forcelevel. Mission-type orders include a clear statement of the superior commander'sintent and state each unit's tasks in terms of operational effects to be achieved inseveral days rather than daily targets and aimpoints.
