![]() ![]() ![]() The Air Force developed a map for the TACP weapon system in the latest AIR FORCE SPECIAL WARFARE (AFSPECWAR) TACTICAL AIR CONTROL PARTY (TACP) WEAPON SYSTEM VISION 2030. TACPs can longer rest on their laurels of liaison and terminal control alone, they must acknowledge the struggles that our nation faces in the next conflict. The tactical air control party (TACP) under the newly minted Air Force special warfare (AFSPECWAR), must transition from a community that focuses primarily on close air support (CAS), multi-domain command and control (C2) functions during Phase III operations, to a career field that can be doctrinally relied on from the onset of Phase I operations who answers the needs of the combined force air component commander (CFACC), keeping in line with the chief of staff’s new directives. We are not postured for the next fight against a near-peer threat such as China or Russia. General Brown echoes what the Air Force enterprise has realized for the last several years. ![]() Charles Brown, Jr., Gen, USAF Chief of Staff of the Air Force Our approach to deterrence must adapt to the changes in the security environment. The forces and operational concepts we need must be different. Tomorrow’s Airmen are more likely to fight in highly contested environments and must be prepared to fight through combat attrition rates and risks to the nation that are more akin to the World War II era than the uncontested environment to which we have since become accustomed. ![]()
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