A Framework for Examining Global Posture to Enable Agile and Responsive Operations

The U.S. Air Force must evaluate its prepositioning strategies and the risks of malpositioning critical assets. In this report, RAND researchers developed a three-stage framework to help decisionmakers explore the posture trade space for a generic asset. Decisionmakers can use this repeatable framework to guide complex posture decisions using specific requirements, constraints, and priorities to determine a posture design.