The Peacetime Tempo of Air Mobility Operations: Meeting Peacetime Demand and Maintaining Readiness

Identify problems and solutions for the Air Mobility Command to meet demand and maintain readiness cost-effectively. The Air Mobility Command (AMC) has faced a host of challenges in recent years that compromise its ability to cost-effectively fulfill the dual goals of meeting peacetime demand and maintaining wartime readiness. This report compares the peacetime tempo of air mobility operations during the Cold War with that of the post-Cold War period in efforts to pinpoint the challenges AMC faces as well as to suggest corrective measures that AMC should take to address these challenges.