The Air Force Special Operations School at Hurlburt Field, Fla., last week was the site for the 20th annual gathering of NATO officials concerned with psychological operations. A key point for attendees was addressing how to maximize scarce resources. They want to look beyond measures such as how many leaflets were dropped to interpretations of how the leaflets changed a target audience’s behavior. However, Capt. Stephanie Allison, the school’s information operations course director, acknowledged that the military penchant for “instant results” is “hard to do with pysop because results take time.” (AFSOC report by 1st Lt. Amy Cooper)
Aircraft readiness will suffer if Congress does not approve some $1.5 billion worth of spare parts the Air Force requested in its annual Unfunded Priorities List, sent to Capitol Hill last week, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said.