What does Agile Combat Employment promote?

• A. Dispersal, agility, and flexibility
• B. Centralization and massing
• C. Rigid schedules
• D. Increased visibility to enemy

Answer: (A)

Agile Combat Employment centers on making airpower operations more resilient and responsive by spreading assets across multiple, often smaller or temporary basing locations. Dispersal reduces vulnerability because no single base represents a large, obvious target, enabling continued operations even if part of the network is challenged. Agility is the ability to move quickly—re-task missions, reallocate aircraft, and shift basing or routes to exploit opportunities or counter threats as the battlespace evolves. Flexibility is the capacity to operate effectively under a range of conditions and to adapt tactics, techniques, and basing to maintain tempo and pressure on the enemy. Together, these principles create a more adaptable, persistent force than centralized, rigid, or predictable setups. Increased visibility to the enemy would undermine these goals, so ACE intentionally avoids making forces more conspicuous.