text: Air Considerations During Multinational Operations
  AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE
  10-11. Air and missile defense is a multinational force responsibility. Multinational air and missile defense
  integrates the capabilities of all component air and missile defense assets to protect and influence an
  operational environment associated with the multinational campaign plan. If area air defense commanders
  are not airspace control authorities, they coordinate with those authorities to synchronize the area air defense
  plans and airspace control orders to support air and missile defense operations. Area air defense commanders
  plan and direct the multinational air and missile defense operations that the component commanders execute.
  Area air defense commanders—
  • Protect the force from hostile air activity.
  • Integrate and coordinate the force’s air and missile defense assets into a multinational air and missile
  defense plan (including host-nation air and missile defense systems).
  • Promulgate and employ common procedures for managing air operations and reducing mutual
  interference.
  • Control and coordinate all air and missile defense operations by component commanders.
  • Coordinate with the air component authority to ensure that the airspace control plan supports air and
  missile defense operations.
  10-12. An Army air and missile defense command (AAMDC) is the Army’s operational lead for Army
  theater air and missile defense. In wartime, the AAMDC deploys to the theater of operations to support the
  Army commander or, if designated, the joint force land component commander. The joint force air
  component commander ensures that Army theater air and missile defense operations are properly coordinated
  and integrated with those of joint and multinational forces.
  10-13. Based on mission variables and augmentation with Army, joint, interagency, and multinational
  personnel, the AAMDC serves as an operational protection integrator for Army forces or the joint force. In
  peacetime, the AAMDC ensures Army air defense artillery forces for echelons above corps are properly
  trained and ready to support theater air and missile defense operations. The AAMDC plans and executes
  various training activities such as exercises and simulations to ensure force readiness. It also coordinates with
  joint and multinational partners to develop procedures for combined theater air and missile defense
  operations, interoperability, and training. The AAMDC also supports homeland defense operations.
  AIRFIELD OPERATIONS
  10-14. Aviation combines speed, mobility, and lethality to gain advantages as the aerial maneuver element
  of the multinational force. Unlike ground combat systems, aviation requires secure airfields to conduct
  sustained operations. Multinational forces manage airfields to enhance the safety, sustainability, and
  survivability of aircraft and aircrews to ensure successful mission accomplishment. Efficient management
  and thoughtful airfield design contributes to the timely response of aviation in large-scale combat operations
  and contingency operations. Locations for aviation airfield operations include but are not limited to—
  • Highway landing strips.
  • Improved and unimproved austere airfields.
  • Captured enemy airfields.
  • Host-nation and adjacent nation airfields.
  10-15. Expansion of the AO at each echelon may depend on forward operating airfields that enable the
  commander to seize the initiative and influence operations at critical points. Aviation, including armed and
  unarmed unmanned aircraft systems, expands the ground commander’s AO in both time and space. A forward
  airfield enhances—
  • Aviation maneuver across all core competencies.
  • More depth and breadth for information collection and joint or coalition fires against either a
  conventional or an asymmetric threat.
  • Economy of force and resources ensuring that aviation can fly anywhere in the AO.
  • Aviation’s ability to conduct attacks, shape operations, and support sustainment as well as to provide
  aerial C2 platforms for supported tactical and operational commanders.