Vectoring Airpower Advocates to Embrace the Real Value of Personnel Recovery

The Air Force rescue community has expanded beyond its traditional image of rescuing downed aircrews to encompass a much larger set of capabilities and competencies that have strategic impact on US operations around the world. The author contends that "airpower advocates now have a strategic rescue capability -- to counter our adversaries' efforts to influence our way of life. It is up to these same advocates to maximize the emerging potential of what we might term 'strategic PR.' ". Adapted from the source document.