Gen. Douglas Fraser, head of US Southern Command, says Joint Task Force-Haiti could not provide more airdrops during relief operations in earthquake-ravaged Haiti simply because there wasn’t enough security on the ground. Talking about lessons learned during AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando last week, Fraser said the task force had requests for more airdrops but there was no way to guarantee proper distribution so the supplies would reach those most in need. He praised the work of the RQ-4 Global Hawk element from Beale AFB, Calif., and other intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance assets for their work, especially in the initial days when they helped track displaced groups of people. “In this situation they migrated a lot from place to place,” he said. Fraser advocated even quicker set up of additional airfields to help handle the flow of supplies within the country. He said, “The quicker … the better.” (Also see above, Avoiding Gridlock)
In the U.S. military, cyber capability is undeniably important to joint warfighting, but cyber is still not fully recognized as a warfighting domain, co-equal to land, sea, air, and space. It isn’t because it’s not. But the day will come when the cyber domain becomes a co-equal domain and requires…
