AFA's Next 'Mitchell Hour' to Focus on Conducting Operations Against Anti-Access and Area-Denial Threats

ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Air Force Association's Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies will move forward this year in a new direction, offering more monthly events with high quality reports and briefings that cover issues vital to airpower and national defense.

WHAT:  AFA's Mitchell Institute invites you to its second Mitchell Hour of the month, a briefing with Mark Gunzinger of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments regarding his latest report: "Outside-in: Operating from Range to Defeat Iran's Anti-Access and Area-Denial Capabilities." As Gunzinger explains, "Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. military has been able to project power overseas with few serious challenges to its freedom of action. This 'golden era' for U.S. power projection is drawing to a close...Iran, in particular, has been investing in new capabilities that could be used to deter, delay, or prevent effective U.S. military operations in the Persian Gulf." The report proposes an operational concept to enable the U.S. military's freedom of action against this threat.

WHEN: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

WHERE: AFA Board Room, 4th Floor
1501 Lee Highway
Arlington, VA 22209

WHO: Mark Gunzinger is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He has been a key player in every major defense review since the end of the Cold War. He supported the Air Force Secretary during the 1993 Bottom-Up Review, 1994 Commission on Roles and Missions, and the 2001 QDR. Most recently, he served as a senior advisor to the Air Force for the 2010 QDR.

Mr. Gunzinger is the principal author or co-author of multiple Defense Planning Guidance/Guidance for Development of the Force directives, the key strategic planning guidance documents that shape DoD force planning.

All Mitchell Hours are free to the public. Register online at http://jan24mitchell2012.eventbrite.com. Please RSVP by January 23, 2012. For additional information, contact Sarah Piggott at [email protected].

ABOUT THE MITCHELL INSTITUTE FOR AIRPOWER STUDIES
The Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies is an independent, non-profit research, studies, and analysis organization founded by the Air Force Association. It takes its name from America's most famous and arguably greatest airman, Brig. Gen. William Mitchell. The Institute seeks to carry on, in the modern day, General Mitchell's tireless and dedicated effort to expand airpower thinking and increase public awareness of the need for this unique military instrument. For more information, visit http://www.afa.org/Mitchell/.

The Air Force Association is a non-profit, independent, professional military and aerospace education association. Our mission is to promote a dominant United States Air Force and a strong national defense, and to honor Airmen and our Air Force Heritage.  To accomplish this, we:

• EDUCATE the public on the critical need for unmatched aerospace power and a technically superior workforce to ensure U.S. national security.
• ADVOCATE for aerospace power and STEM education.
• SUPPORT the Total Air Force family and promote aerospace education.

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