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Simplicity
What principle of war calls for avoiding unnecessary complexity in organizing, preparing, planning, and conducting military operations?
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Economy of Force
What principle of war is the judicious employment and distribution of forces?
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Centralized Control Decentralized Execution
What tenet of airpower ensures control by a single Airman who maintains the broad, strategic perspective necessary to balance and prioritize the use of a powerful, highly desired yet limited force?
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Persistence
What tenet of airpower applies speed and range to allow its forces to visit and revisit wide ranges of targets nearly at will?
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Security
What principle of war is to never permit the enemy to acquire unexpected advantage?
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Maneuver
What principle of war places the enemy in a position of disadvantage through the flexible application of combat power in a multidimensional combat space?
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Flexibility and Versatility
What tenet of airpower allows airpower to exploit mass and maneuver simultaneously?
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Concentration
What tenet of airpower is concentrating overwhelming power at a decisive time and place?
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Objective
What principle of war is to direct military operations toward a defined and attainable objective that contributes to strategic, operational, and tactical aims?
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Mass
What principle of war is to concentrate the effects of combat power at the most advantageous place and time to achieve decisive results?
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Priority
What tenet of airpower is establishing clear priorities for the use of airpower?
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Synergistic Effects
What tenet of airpower is a coordinated force across multiple domains that can produce effects exceeding the contributions of forces employed individually?
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Unity of Command
What principle of war ensures concentration of effort for every objective under one responsible commander?
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Surprise
What principle of war attacks the enemy at a time, place, or in a manner for which they are not prepared?
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Flexibility and Versatility
What tenet of airpower is the ability to employ airpower effectively at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war and provide a wide variety of tasks in concert with other joint force elements?
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Offensive
What principle of war aims to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative?
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Balance
What tenet of airpower is the dynamic and correct balancing of the principles of joint operations and the tenets of airpower to bring Air Force capabilities together to produce synergistic effects?
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