Download or read book Defense Science Board 1998 Summer Study. Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century: Integrating Capabilities Underwriting Joint Vision 2010 and Beyond. Volume 2: Supporting Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of the 1998 Summer Study report provided a framework for integrating capabilities underwriting Joint Vision 2010. The task force identified early and continuous application of decisive combat effects as the central theme of the study, and identified eight supporting and interlocking operational challenges. These supporting challenges include assured knowledge superiority, responsive global targeting, exploitation of the littoral battlespace, inter- and intra-theater mobility, coalition warfare, force and infrastructure protection, theater ballistic and cruise missile defense, and urban operations. In each of these areas, Volume I describes selected enablers essential to achieving these operational challenges. Volume II, Supporting Reports, contains material that further elaborates on the subjects highlighted in Volume I. Part 1, Task Force White Papers, begins by exploring the topic of early and continuous combat effectiveness in further detail by describing additional enablers that are important elements of this overall capability. Some of the weapons systems discussed include ballistic missile launched precision weapons, space-based lasers, small precision bombs, loiter weapons, kinetic energy weapons, and light armored vehicles. Other White Papers provide descriptions of additional enablers for responsive global targeting, exploiting the littoral battlespace, robotic adjuncts for dismounted troops, and urban operations. Part 2 of this volume provides summaries of related reports describing operational concepts promoted by the military Services that are related to the overall themes of Joint Vision 2010, an overview of recommendations from prior Defense Science Board studies that support the findings of the 1998 Summer Study task force, and other supporting analyses conducted by RAND.