Airborne Counter Insurgency Brochure

Exploring the challenges of platform requirements and dedicated light strike procurement, alongside evolving doctrinal thinking and strategic planning, Airborne COIN 2010 will provide incisive briefings from COIN stakeholders and influencers

Lieutenant Colonel David Torres- Laboy, Head of Strategy and Partnership Development Office, Air Combat Command, United States Air Force

Group Captain Al Byford, Centre for Air Power Studies, Royal Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Anders Nygren, Air Operations Division, Swedish National Defence College

Colonel Baltrusaitis, Associate Dean Air War College, United States Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel John Malevich, Canadian Exchange Officer, COIN Branch Chief, USA/USMC Counterinsurgency Centre, Canadian Armed Forces

Colonel Mark Wells, Permanent Professor, United States Air Force Academy

Lieutenant Colonel Onno Eichelsheim, Operational Policy and Defence Planning, Helicopter Branch Royal Netherlands Air Force (pending confirmation)

Squadron Leader Lewis Cunningham RAF, SO2 Air, Land Warfare Centre

Dr Joel Hayward, Dean of the RAF College, RAF College Cranwell

Dr James Coram, Airborne COIN SME, Dean of Baltic Defence College

Professor William Dean, Professor Air Power and Irregular Warfare, Air Command and Staff College, United States Air Force

Jim Teeple, NIAG 106 Special Operational Forces Working Group, Air Capability Group 5 (Mobility), NATO David E. Johnson, Senior Researcher/SME Air Power Project, RAND Organisation

Group Captain (Ret’d) Ian Shields, Former Assistant Head Air and Space, Developments, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, Royal Air Force

Wing Commander (Retired) Chris Pitt, Formerly SO1 EW & TD, RAF and Managing Director Cycnia

Chris Granville-White CBE

30th November – 1st December, 2010 • CCT Smithfield • London, UK

Presentations cover the spectrum of preparing, planning and executing airborne COIN operations and include the following:

Valuable case study from the Swedish Air Force explaining how countries construct a comprehensive airborne COIN capability by modifying, adapting and utilising existing UAV, Fixed-Wing and Rotor-Wing platforms, allowing you to benchmark with counterparts and evaluate requirements

Take the opportunity to learn about how the new RAF single service AP3000 doctrine maps out the current and future role of UK air based platforms and assets for the specific challenges of COIN, providing you with the latest vision for future UK requirements and the scope to gauge how to best provide solutions for this challenge

Hear the US Army/US Marine Corps COIN Centre’s updated analysis of the evolving role of airpower in ISAF operations and advance your understanding of how Airborne COIN doctrine develops in response to changes on the ground, giving you a unique opportunity to analyse what is driving new Airborne COIN requirements

Learn about the necessity of training and resourcing partner nations with dedicated light strike aircraft from the subject matter expert responsible for devising the air component of the US Army/USMC COIN Field Manual, allowing you to evaluate the long-term procurement plans that small emerging air forces will require in order to maximise their COIN capability

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Hear Insight from International Experts:

Analysing the USAF Air Combat Command Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance Programme

InauguralConference on the role of Airpower in COIN and Irregular

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08.30 REGISTRATION

08.50 CHAIRMAN’S ADDRESS AND OPENING REMARKS Chairman: Wing Commander (Retired) Chris Pitt, Cyncia

09.00 Overview of the Function of Air Power in Contemporary Counter-Insurgency Operations • WhatcontributionscanairbasedassetsmaketoCOINoperations? • ThelimitsofairpowerinastrikebasedcapacityinaCOINenvironment • WhatarethetypesofaircraftcurrentlyneededforCOIN? Dr. Joel Hayward, Dean of the Royal Air Force College

09.40 US Air Force Development of a Light Strike Aircraft Dedicated to Undertaking Counter-Insurgency Operations • USAFLightAttack/ArmedReconnaissanceAircraft(LAAR)Programme • ChallengesofdevelopinganewdedicatedCOINplatformandkeyrequirements • TheroleofLightStrikeAircraftinirregularwarfareandthemeritsofdedicatedaircraft • USAFpartnershipwithothernationstoshareLightStrikeassets Lieutenant Colonel David Torres-Laboy, Air Combat Command, United States Air Forces

10.20 COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

10.50 RAF Strategic Perspective on the Role of UK Airpower in Counter-Insurgency Operations • AirpowerasacomponentoftheAirandSpaceDoctrine(AP3000) • EstablishingadefinitivesingleserviceUKperspectiveonhowairbasedassetscontributetothespectrumofoperationsrequired counter-insurgency operations: interdiction, mobility, close air support • HowcantheRAFbebetterorientatedforundertakingoperationsinirregularwarfare Group Captain Al Byford, Director Defence Studies, Royal Air Force

11.30 The Challenges and Ramifications of Utilising Aerial Drones for Targeting Insurgents • ThemeritsofunmannedvehiclesinCOINoperations • Thepotentialproblemsofdeployingdronestotargetandstrikeinsurgents • TheevolutionarydevelopmentofanholisticandjoinedupapproachtoairborneCOIN Colonel Mark Wells, Permanent Professor, United States Air Force Academy

12.10 NETWORKING LUNCH

13.30 Training Allied COIN Air Forces: Old Lessons and New Environments • BriefoverviewofUSandUKhistoricalexperienceoftrainingthirdworldforces • Currentdoctrinaldebateontheroleofadvisoryandaidmissionstothirdworldallieswithinthe environment of current small wars • Thewayforwardforensuring‘homenations’areeffectivelyequippedtoundertakeCOINoperations Dr. James Corum, Airborne COIN SME, Dean of the Baltic Defence College

14.10 The Evolution of COIN: Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going? • COINOverview • EarlyAirpowerCOINDoctrine(thestruggleforamission) • PresentAirpowerCOINDoctrine • RecommendationsforthefutureofAirpowerCOINDoctrine Lieutenant Colonel John Malevich, Canadian Exchange Officer, COIN Branch Chief, US Army/ USMC Counter Insurgency Centre, Canadian Armed Forces

14.50 AFTERNOON TEA & NETWORKING

15.20 The Swedish Perspective on Airpower and COIN • ThecurrentutilisationofairborneassetsinCOINoperationsinAfghanistan • Futurewaysinwhichwecanimprovethedetectionandneutralisationofenemycombatantsusing a combination of air based platforms: fixed wing, rotor wing and UAVs • Howsmallerarmedforcesareadaptingtheirexistingmixofplatformsforirregularwarfareoperations Lieutenant Colonel Anders Nygren, Head Instructor Air Operations Division, Swedish National Defence College

16.00 The Function and Role of Rotor-Wing Assets in COIN Operations • ThecontributionoftheApachetoairborneCOINoperationsinAfghanistan • Thebenefitsofrotor-wingassetsinrelationtofixed-wingassetsforCOINoperationsandirregularwarfare • EquippingandmodifyinghelicopterplatformsforCOIN Lieutenant Colonel Onno Eichelsheim, Operational Policy and Defence Planning, Helicopter Branch. Royal Netherlands Air Force (pending final confirmation)

16.40 CHAIRMAN’S SUMMARY AND CLOSING REMARKS

08.50 CHAIRMAN’S ADDRESS AND OPENING REMARKS Wing Commander (Retired) Chris Pitt, Cyncia

09.00 Airborne COIN Operations and the Challenge of Collateral Damage • TheroleofcollateraldamageinlimitingtheapplicationofAirpowerinCOINoperations • Ensuringasynergybetweenairmanandsoldiers • ThecontinuedroleofairpowerinastrikeroleinCOINandirregularwarfare Colonel Daniel Baltrusaitis, Associate Dean, Air War College, United States Air Force

9.40 The Brazilian Air Force’s Light Strike Aircraft: Requirements, Capabilities and Operations • RoleoftheSuper-Tucanoasalightstrikeplatform • Groundandair-to-airweaponsrequirements • FuturerequirementsforBrazilianAirForcelightstrikecapability • Currentthreatsandfutureoperations Invited Speaker: Representative of the Third Air Force (Operational Area) Brazilian Air Force

10.20 COFFEE BREAK AND NETWORKING

10.50 UK Land Warfare Centre Perspective on the Applicability of Airborne Assets to COIN Campaign • WhatwilltheconsequencesbeforthecompositionoftheRAF’sassetsandcapabilitiesifCOIN operationsarethelikelyfuturescenarioforUKarmedforces? • Theimportanceofensuringair/landsynergyinCOINforbothmobilityandstrikeoperationsandhowdoweensurethis? • UKperspectiveonutilisingexistingassetsforafullycoordinatedandnetworkedairborneCOINcapability Squadron Leader Lewis Cunningham RAF, SO2 Air, Land Warfare Centre

11.30 The Evolving Role of Airpower in Fighting Irregular and Hybrid Wars and the Implications for Air Forces • Thinkingaboutthefuturerequirementsforairpowerindealingwiththethreatsposedbyinsurgentsarmedbystateactors • Lookingbeyondcontemporarycounter-insurgencychallengesandassessingthecontributionairpowercanmakein the medium to long term • Re-orientatingthestructureofairforcestofullypreparethemforthehybridthreat David E. Johnson, Senior Researcher/SME, RAND Corporation

12.10 NETWORKING LUNCH

13.30 A Perspective on COIN from the Royal New Zealand Air Force • HistoricalexperienceofRNZAFCOINOperationsinMalay • UnderstandingtherootsofCOINdoctrineandthinking • HowairoperationsareshapedbythespecificchallengesofCOIN Group Captain Shaun Clarke, J5 Plans, Headquarters Join Forces, Royal New Zealand Air Force

14.10 Relative Merits of Airborne Assets for COIN operations: Light Attack, Fast Jet, Rotary, Unmanned Panel session providing a forum for the vigorous exchange of views on the optimum orientation of air based assets for COINoperations.Docertaintypesofaircrafthavedistinctmeritswhenitcomestoparticipatinginirregularwarfare?What aretheadvantagesofdifferentplatforms?HowshouldresourcesbeallocatedinordertoachievetheoptimumCOINcapability? Panel session facilitated by Chris Granville-White

14.50 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

15.20 Air Mobility and Irregular Warfare • Airmobilityasthekeyelementinfightingirregularwars • Thelinkbetweencloseairsupportandairmobility • CasestudiesexploringtheconsequenceofineffectiveairmobilityinCOINoperations • ApplicationoflessonslearnedtocontemporaryCOINoperationsandcampaigns Professor William Dean, Professor of Air Power and Irregular Warfare, Air Command and Staff College, United States Air Force

16.00 Development of a NATO Capability Matrix for Special Operations Forces’ Airborne Assets • CreatingaNATOstandardforSOFmobilitysupport • Theimportanceofestablishingperformancevariablesforaircraftinvolvedintheinfiltration,exfiltrationandresupplyofSOF • TheroleofairpowerinprovidingSOFmobilityinCOINmissions • TheimportanceofSOFintra-theatremobilitycapabilitiesformeetingthechallengeofCOINoperations James Teeple, NIAG 106 Special Operational Forces Working Group, Air Capability Group 5 (Mobility), NATO

16.40 Airborne Counter-Insurgency: A Philosophy for the Future • WhatisthefutureroleforairassetsinCOIN? • Whattypeofaircraftshouldbeutilisedforfutureoperations? • WhatarethelikelyconceptualanddoctrinaldevelopmentsforairborneCOINinthelongterm? Group Captain (Ret’d) Ian Shields, Former Assistant Head Air and Space, Developments, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, Royal Air Force

17.10 CHAIRMAN’S SUMMARY AND CLOSE OF CONFERENCE


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