摘要：F OR ALMOST 30 years, the Red Flag exercise has trained Blue Four—lieutenants and captains competent in their aircraft but without flying experience in a composite strike force—to survive in combat. Red Flag has also given more experienced pilots the opportunity to serve as mission and package commanders in order to learn the best way of employing an integrated, large-force package to achieve a tactical mission objective. However, as the complexity of air operations has increased with the advent of networkcentric warfare, precision-guided munitions, and stealth technology, and as special opera tions, space, and information warfare have integrated with combat air forces, so has the pressure increased to change Red Flag to include more platforms and expand its training focus.
